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title: peony — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «peony» in the school dictionary: A large garden flower with big round pink, red or white blooms and thick, full petals. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

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# peony

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**Who acts:** Blooming hyacinths · **What happens:** bloom, stand, puff up, look · **To what, where:** glass bells, peonies

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A large garden flower with big round pink, red or white blooms and thick, full petals.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:peony:m1:1
# text = A large garden flower with big round pink, red or white blooms and thick, full petals.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
7	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	blooms	bloom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Blooming hyacinths and peonies stood under glass bells.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:peony:x1:1
# text = Blooming hyacinths and peonies stood under glass bells.
1	Blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	peonies	peony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Blooming hyacinths and peonies |  |  | glass bells |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bell=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The peonies were puffed up to look bigger than the roses.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:peony:x2:1
# text = The peonies were puffed up to look bigger than the roses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peonies	peony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puff up** | past · passive |  | the peonies |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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