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title: grotto — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «grotto» in the school dictionary: A small cave, often a shady or decorated place, sometimes made in a garden. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# grotto

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**Who acts:** children, nymphs, Santa · **What happens:** make, find, live, have · **To what, where:** shady place, garden, grotto, waterfall, shady grotto, shop

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«grotto» 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: [grotto in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grotto.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A small cave, often a shady or decorated place, sometimes made in a garden.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:grotto:m1:1
# text = A small cave, often a shady or decorated place, sometimes made in a garden.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	decorated	decorated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a shady place *not said here* |  | a garden |  | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The children found a grotto behind the waterfall.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:grotto:x1:1
# text = The children found a grotto behind the waterfall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the children | a grotto |  | the waterfall |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grotto=Topic |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The nymphs lived in a shady grotto.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:grotto:x2:1
# text = The nymphs lived in a shady grotto.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the nymphs |  |  | a shady grotto |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grotto=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Santa has a grotto in the shop.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:grotto:x3:1
# text = Santa has a grotto in the shop.
1	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Santa | a grotto |  | the shop |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grotto=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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