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title: landlady — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «landlady» in the school dictionary: A landlady is a woman who owns or runs an inn, pub or lodging house and rents rooms to people. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# landlady

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**Who acts:** landlady, woman · **What happens:** be, own, run, lodge, rent, bring · **To what, where:** woman, inn, house, rooms, people, soup

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A landlady is a woman who owns or runs an inn, pub or lodging house and rents rooms to people.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:landlady:m1:1
# text = A landlady is a woman who owns or runs an inn, pub or lodging house and rents rooms to people.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlady	landlady	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	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pub	pub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rents	rent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 landlady | a woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | present | a woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **run** | present | a woman *not said here* | a inn and pub |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inn=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lodge** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | house |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location |
| 5 | **rent** | present | a woman *not said here* | rooms | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Theme to people=Recipient |

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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 landlady brought us soup.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:landlady:x1:1
# text = The landlady brought us soup.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlady	landlady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the landlady | soup | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination soup=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Our landlady was very kind.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:landlady:x2:1
# text = Our landlady was very kind.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	landlady	landlady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Our landlady |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The landlady asked too many questions.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:landlady:x3:1
# text = The landlady asked too many questions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlady	landlady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the landlady | many questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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