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title: greensward — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «greensward» in the school dictionary: a stretch of smooth green grass, like a lawn or meadow. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# greensward

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**Who acts:** lovely patches, Deer · **What happens:** be, rest, graze · **To what, where:** children, greensward

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«greensward» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [greensward in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/greensward.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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a stretch of smooth green grass, like a lawn or meadow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:greensward:m1:1
# text = a stretch of smooth green grass, like a lawn or meadow.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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There were lovely patches of greensward all about.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:greensward:x1:1
# text = There were lovely patches of greensward all about.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	greensward	greensward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | lovely patches of greensward |  |  | there |  | about *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The children rested on the greensward.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:greensward:x2:1
# text = The children rested on the greensward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	greensward	greensward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | participle · passive |  | the children |  | the greensward |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on greensward=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Deer grazed on the greensward.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:greensward:x3:1
# text = Deer grazed on the greensward.
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	greensward	greensward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | past | Deer |  |  |  |  | on the greensward | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on greensward=Patient |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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