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title: moorland — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «moorland» in the school dictionary: Moorland is wide open high land covered with heather and rough grass, often wet and bare. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# moorland

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**Who acts:** Moorland, Sheep, path, Snow · **What happens:** be, cover, graze, cross · **To what, where:** wide open high land, moorland

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Moorland is wide open high land covered with heather and rough grass, often wet and bare.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:moorland:m1:1
# text = Moorland is wide open high land covered with heather and rough grass, often wet and bare.
1	Moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Moorland | wide open high land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | wide open high land *not said here* |  |  |  | with heather and rough grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heather=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Sheep graze on the moorland.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:moorland:x1:1
# text = Sheep graze on the moorland.
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | present | Sheep |  |  |  |  | on the moorland | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on moorland=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The path crossed the moorland in thick mist.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:moorland:x2:1
# text = The path crossed the moorland in thick mist.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crossed	cross	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	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the path | the moorland |  |  |  | in thick mist | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent moorland=Patient in mist=Topic |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Snow covered the moorland all winter.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:moorland:x3:1
# text = Snow covered the moorland all winter.
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | Snow | the moorland |  |  | winter |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moorland=Destination |

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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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