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title: pasteboard — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «pasteboard» in the school dictionary: Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# pasteboard

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**Who acts:** Pasteboard, We, cover, floor · **What happens:** be, use, make · **To what, where:** card, box, pasteboard, stiff pasteboard

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pasteboard:m1:1
# text = Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes.
1	Pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pasteboard |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the card *not said here* |  |  |  | for boxes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We made a box from pasteboard.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pasteboard:x1:1
# text = We made a box from pasteboard.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | We | a box |  | pasteboard |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent box=Product from pasteboard=Material |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cover of the book was stiff pasteboard.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pasteboard:x2:1
# text = The cover of the book was stiff pasteboard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the cover of the book | stiff pasteboard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The floor was as white and shiny as pasteboard.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pasteboard:x3:1
# text = The floor was as white and shiny as pasteboard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the floor |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the floor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as pasteboard | 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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