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title: productive — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «productive» in the school dictionary: Making a lot of things, such as crops, ideas or results; fruitful and useful. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# productive

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**Who acts:** garden, spring showers, We · **What happens:** make, be, have, finish · **To what, where:** lot, sums

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Making a lot of things, such as crops, ideas or results; fruitful and useful.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:productive:m1:1
# text = Making a lot of things, such as crops, ideas or results; fruitful and useful.
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | a lot of things |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product |

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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 garden is productive in summer.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:productive:x1:1
# text = The garden is productive in summer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	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** | present | the garden |  |  |  | summer | productive *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The spring showers were productive and green.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:productive:x2:1
# text = The spring showers were productive and green.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We had a productive morning and finished all the sums.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:productive:x3:1
# text = We had a productive morning and finished all the sums.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We |  |  |  | morning |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | past | We *not said here* | all sums |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sum=Eventuality |

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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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