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title: macadamize — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «macadamize» in the school dictionary: To macadamize a road is to cover it with layers of broken stone, pressed down hard to make a firm, smooth surface. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# macadamize

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**Who acts:** flower garden · **What happens:** macadamize, be, break, press down, make, paint · **To what, where:** road, layers, firm smooth surface, roofs, flower garden, garden

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«macadamize» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [macadamize in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/macadamize.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To macadamize a road is to cover it with layers of broken stone, pressed down hard to make a firm, smooth surface.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:macadamize:m1:1
# text = To macadamize a road is to cover it with layers of broken stone, pressed down hard to make a firm, smooth surface.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	macadamize	macadamize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **macadamize** | to-infinitive |  | a road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with layers of broken stone; cover *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **press down** | participle |  | layers of broken stone *not said here* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a firm smooth surface |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset surface=Product |

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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 roofs were gayly painted, and before each house was a flower garden, which separated it from the macadamized high-road.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:macadamize:x1:1
# text = The roofs were gayly painted, and before each house was a flower garden, which separated it from the macadamized high-road.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	gayly	gayly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	macadamized	macadamize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | the roofs |  |  |  | gayly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a flower garden |  |  | before each house |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **separate** | past | a flower garden | garden |  |  |  | from the macadamized high road | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from road=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **macadamize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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