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title: powdery — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «powdery» in the school dictionary: Like powder: fine, dry and soft. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# powdery

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**Who acts:** snow, Flour, wings, Chalk, powdery sand, Skiers · **What happens:** cover, be, leave, blow, love · **To what, where:** powdery mark, wind, powdery snow

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«powdery» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: [powdery in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/powdery.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Like powder: fine, dry and soft.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:m1:1
# text = Like powder: fine, dry and soft.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Covered with powder.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:m2:1
# text = Covered with powder.
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with powder | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with powder=Theme |

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The snow was soft and powdery.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x1:1
# text = The snow was soft and powdery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Flour is a powdery solid.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x2:1
# text = Flour is a powdery solid.
1	Flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Flour |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The moth's wings were powdery.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x3:1
# text = The moth's wings were powdery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the moth's wings |  |  |  |  | powdery *property* | tree rules |

## Example 4 {#x4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Chalk leaves a powdery mark.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x4:1
# text = Chalk leaves a powdery mark.
1	Chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | Chalk | a powdery mark |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |

## Example 5 {#x5}

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The powdery sand blew in the wind.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x5:1
# text = The powdery sand blew in the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the powdery sand |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

## Example 6 {#x6}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Skiers love powdery snow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:powdery:x6:1
# text = Skiers love powdery snow.
1	Skiers	skier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Skiers | powdery snow |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus |

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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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