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title: persimmon — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «persimmon» in the school dictionary: A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands. An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# persimmon

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**Who acts:** sweet orange fruit, unripe persimmon, persimmon, you, We · **What happens:** grow, be, not bite, pick · **To what, where:** tree, unripe persimmon, three persimmons

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands. An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter.

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*Sentence 1:* A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persimmon:m1:1
# text = A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a sweet orange fruit |  |  | a tree |  | in warm lands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persimmon:m1:2
# text = An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unripe	unripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persimmon	persimmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a unripe persimmon |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a unripe persimmon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The persimmon is orange when it is ripe.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persimmon:x1:1
# text = The persimmon is orange when it is ripe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	persimmon	persimmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the persimmon |  |  |  |  | orange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | persimmon |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Do not bite an unripe persimmon; it is as hard as stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persimmon:x2:1
# text = Do not bite an unripe persimmon; it is as hard as stone.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	bite	bite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unripe	unripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	persimmon	persimmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bite** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a unripe persimmon |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persimmon=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as stone; hard *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We picked three persimmons from the tree.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persimmon:x3:1
# text = We picked three persimmons from the tree.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | We | three persimmons |  | the tree |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent persimmon=Theme from tree=Source |

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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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