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title: herbage — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «herbage» in the school dictionary: Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# herbage

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**Who acts:** Herbage, animals, cows, elephants · **What happens:** be, graze on, graze, trample · **To what, where:** grass, food, herbage

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:herbage:m1:1
# text = Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on.
1	Herbage	herbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Herbage | grass and green plants and the food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **graze on** | present | animals | the food |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Experiencer |

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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 cows grazed on sweet herbage.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:herbage:x1:1
# text = The cows grazed on sweet herbage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	herbage	herbage	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 | **graze** | past | the cows |  |  |  |  | on sweet herbage | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on herbage=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The elephants trampled the herbage flat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:herbage:x2:1
# text = The elephants trampled the herbage flat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trampled	trample	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	herbage	herbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample** | past | the elephants | the herbage |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After the rain, the herbage was thick and green.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:herbage:x3:1
# text = After the rain, the herbage was thick and green.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	herbage	herbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the herbage |  |  |  | after the rain | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the herbage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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