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title: perambulator — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «perambulator» in the school dictionary: A pram: a small carriage on wheels in which a baby is pushed along by a nurse. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# perambulator

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**Who acts:** nurse, They, children · **What happens:** push along, be, fall, look away · **To what, where:** baby, small carriage, children, perambulators

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A pram: a small carriage on wheels in which a baby is pushed along by a nurse.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perambulator:m1:1
# text = A pram: a small carriage on wheels in which a baby is pushed along by a nurse.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pram	pram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	along	along	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push along** | present · passive | a nurse | a baby |  | a small carriage on wheels |  | along *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in which=Trajectory |

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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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They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse looks away.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perambulator:x1:1
# text = They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse looks away.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	perambulators	perambulator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | the children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the children |  |  | children's perambulators |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out perambulator=Location |
| 3 | **look away** | present | the nurse |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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