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title: hundredweight — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «hundredweight» in the school dictionary: A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# hundredweight

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**Who acts:** hundredweight, unit, sack, He, cart · **What happens:** be, weigh, not lift, carry · **To what, where:** unit, heavy things, 112 pounds, Britain, 100 pounds, America

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hundredweight:m1:1
# text = A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	weighing	weigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a hundredweight | a unit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weigh** | gerund | a unit *not said here* | heavy things |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value |
| 3 | **is a** | present | hundredweight | 112 pounds and 100 pounds |  | Britain |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | hundredweight | 100 pounds |  | America |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A sack of coal can weigh a hundredweight.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hundredweight:x1:1
# text = A sack of coal can weigh a hundredweight.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **weigh** | can | a sack of coal | a hundredweight |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundredweight=Value |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He could not lift a hundredweight of stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hundredweight:x2:1
# text = He could not lift a hundredweight of stone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lift** | could | He | a hundredweight of stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredweight=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cart carried three hundredweight of apples.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hundredweight:x3:1
# text = The cart carried three hundredweight of apples.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the cart | three hundredweight of apples |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredweight=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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