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title: hawthorn — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «hawthorn» in the school dictionary: A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn, often grown as a hedge. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# hawthorn

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**Who acts:** garden, hawthorn · **What happens:** grow, have, be, cover · **To what, where:** white flowers, tall hawthorn hedge, sharp thorns, hawthorn

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn, often grown as a hedge.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hawthorn:m1:1
# text = A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn, often grown as a hedge.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  | white flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn *not said here* |  |  |  | as a hedge; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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The garden had a tall hawthorn hedge.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hawthorn:x1:1
# text = The garden had a tall hawthorn hedge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hawthorn	hawthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the garden | a tall hawthorn hedge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Be careful, the hawthorn has sharp thorns.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hawthorn:x2:1
# text = Be careful, the hawthorn has sharp thorns.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hawthorn	hawthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | the hawthorn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the hawthorn | sharp thorns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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In May the hawthorn is covered in white flowers.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hawthorn:x3:1
# text = In May the hawthorn is covered in white flowers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hawthorn	hawthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive |  | the hawthorn |  |  | may | in white flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in flower=Theme |

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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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