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title: higgle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «higgle» in the school dictionary: To haggle, to argue and bargain over a price. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# higgle

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**Who acts:** traders, They, We · **What happens:** haggle, argue, bargain, higgle, not higgle, fix · **To what, where:** price

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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To haggle, to argue and bargain over a price.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:higgle:m1:1
# text = To haggle, to argue and bargain over a price.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	haggle	haggle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	argue	argue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bargain	bargain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haggle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bargain** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | over a price | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over price=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 traders higgled over the price of the cow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:higgle:x1:1
# text = The traders higgled over the price of the cow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	higgled	higgle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **higgle** | past | the traders |  |  | the price of the cow |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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They higgled and haggled all morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:higgle:x2:1
# text = They higgled and haggled all morning.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	higgled	higgle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	haggled	haggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **higgle** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **haggle** | past | They *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We will not higgle; the price is fixed.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:higgle:x3:1
# text = We will not higgle; the price is fixed.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	higgle	higgle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **higgle** | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | present · passive |  | the price |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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