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title: gully — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «gully» in the school dictionary: A gully is a narrow channel or ditch cut into the ground by rain or running water. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# gully

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**Who acts:** gully, wagon, He · **What happens:** be, ditch, cut, run, roll, break · **To what, where:** narrow channel, wagon, gully, gullies

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A gully is a narrow channel or ditch cut into the ground by rain or running water.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gully:m1:1
# text = A gully is a narrow channel or ditch cut into the ground by rain or running water.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ditch	ditch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a gully | a narrow channel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ditch** | infinitive | a gully *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  | a narrow channel *not said here* |  |  |  | by rain or running water; into the ground | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into ground=Patient |
| 4 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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After the storm the gully was full of mud.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gully:x1:1
# text = After the storm the gully was full of mud.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the gully |  |  |  | after the storm | of mud; full *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The wagon rolled into the gully and broke.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gully:x2:1
# text = The wagon rolled into the gully and broke.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
8	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  | the wagon *not said here* |  | the gully |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into gully=Destination |
| 2 | **break** | past | the wagon |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He ran through gullies and over rocks.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gully:x3:1
# text = He ran through gullies and over rocks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gullies	gully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | He |  |  | gullies and rocks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gully=Trajectory |

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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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