---
title: perpendicularly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «perpendicularly» in the school dictionary: Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square corner) to a line or surface. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perpendicularly/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/) / [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/) / perpendicularly

# perpendicularly

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** heroes, oars · **What happens:** have, hold, let, fall · **To what, where:** oars, water

<!-- .vabout -->
«perpendicularly» 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: [perpendicularly in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/perpendicularly.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square corner) to a line or surface.

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perpendicularly:m1:1
# text = Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square corner) to a line or surface.
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The heroes had their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water.

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perpendicularly:x1:1
# text = The heroes had their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	perpendicularly	perpendicularly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the heroes | heroes's oars |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | heroes's oars *not said here* |  |  |  | perpendicularly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | heroes's oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | heroes's oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [pernicious](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pernicious/)
- next →: [perpetrate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perpetrate/)
- ↑ back to [P in school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/)