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title: phial — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «phial» in the school dictionary: A small glass bottle for holding liquid, often medicine. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# phial

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**Who acts:** small glass bottle, She · **What happens:** hold, put, keep · **To what, where:** medicine, small phial, phials, pocket

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A small glass bottle for holding liquid, often medicine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:phial:m1:1
# text = A small glass bottle for holding liquid, often medicine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | a small glass bottle and medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | liquid *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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She put the medicine in a small phial.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:phial:x1:1
# text = She put the medicine in a small phial.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	phial	phial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | She | the medicine |  | a small phial |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme in phial=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The phials of blood were kept in his pocket.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:phial:x2:1
# text = The phials of blood were kept in his pocket.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phials	phial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the phials of blood |  | his pocket |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pocket=Location |

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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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