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title: plaice — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «plaice» in the school dictionary: A plaice is a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten as food. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# plaice

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**Who acts:** plaice, We, fisherman · **What happens:** be, eat, have, catch, lie · **To what, where:** flat sea fish, plaice, three plaice, sea floor

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A plaice is a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten as food.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:plaice:m1:1
# text = A plaice is a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten as food.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plaice	plaice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a plaice | a flat sea fish |  |  |  | with brown skin and orange spots | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | participle |  | a flat sea fish *not said here* |  |  |  | as food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We had plaice and chips for lunch.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:plaice:x1:1
# text = We had plaice and chips for lunch.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plaice	plaice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We | plaice and chips for lunch |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaice=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fisherman caught three plaice.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:plaice:x2:1
# text = The fisherman caught three plaice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	plaice	plaice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the fisherman | three plaice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaice=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Plaice lie flat on the sea floor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:plaice:x3:1
# text = Plaice lie flat on the sea floor.
1	Plaice	plaice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	floor	floor	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 | **lie** | present | Plaice |  |  | the sea floor |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=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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