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title: maidservant — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «maidservant» in the school dictionary: A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking. Old use. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# maidservant

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**Who acts:** maidservant, young woman, You · **What happens:** be, work, go out, take, sweep · **To what, where:** young woman, world, service, floors

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«maidservant» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [maidservant in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/maidservant.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking. Old use.

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*Sentence 1:* A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:maidservant:m1:1
# text = A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a maidservant | a young woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | a young woman |  |  |  |  | as a servant; in a house and cleaning and cooking | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Old use.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:maidservant:m1:2
# text = Old use.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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You must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:maidservant:x1:1
# text = You must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | must | You |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present | You *not said here* | service |  |  |  | as a maidservant | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent service=Theme as maidservant=Attribute |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The maidservant swept the floors every morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:maidservant:x2:1
# text = The maidservant swept the floors every morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | the maidservant | the floors |  |  | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory |

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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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