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title: lucrative — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lucrative» in the school dictionary: Bringing in a lot of money; profitable and well paid. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# lucrative

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**Who acts:** He, miller, lucrative trade, It, few · **What happens:** bring, pay, get, find, sell, not be · **To what, where:** lot, lucrative job, palace, lucrative trade, bread, lucrative office

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Bringing in a lot of money; profitable and well paid.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lucrative:m1:1
# text = Bringing in a lot of money; profitable and well paid.
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund |  |  |  | a lot of money |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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He got a lucrative job at the palace.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lucrative:x1:1
# text = He got a lucrative job at the palace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lucrative	lucrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | He | a lucrative job |  | the palace |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent job=Theme at palace=Asset |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The miller found a lucrative trade selling bread.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lucrative:x2:1
# text = The miller found a lucrative trade selling bread.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lucrative	lucrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the miller | a lucrative trade |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund | a lucrative trade *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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It was not a lucrative office, so few wanted it.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lucrative:x3:1
# text = It was not a lucrative office, so few wanted it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lucrative	lucrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | It | a lucrative office |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | few | office |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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