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title: piper — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «piper» in the school dictionary: A piper is a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# piper

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**Who acts:** piper, person, Maurice · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** person, pipe, merry tune, feast

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A piper is a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:piper:m1:1
# text = A piper is a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a piper | a person and a kind of musical instrument |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | a person and a kind of musical instrument | a pipe |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=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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The piper played a merry tune at the feast.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:piper:x1:1
# text = The piper played a merry tune at the feast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the piper | a merry tune |  | the feast |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Maurice Connor was the best of all the pipers in Munster.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:piper:x2:1
# text = Maurice Connor was the best of all the pipers in Munster.
1	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pipers	piper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Maurice |  |  |  |  | of all pipers in Munster; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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