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title: profitable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «profitable» in the school dictionary: Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# profitable

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**Who acts:** Selling, It, messenger · **What happens:** bring, do, sell, be, keep, hope · **To what, where:** money, cakes, fair, bees

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:profitable:m1:1
# text = Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing.
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund |  |  |  | money |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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}

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Selling cakes at the fair was profitable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:profitable:x1:1
# text = Selling cakes at the fair was profitable.
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | cakes |  | the fair |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cake=Theme at fair=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | Selling |  |  |  |  | profitable *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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It is profitable to keep bees for honey.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:profitable:x2:1
# text = It is profitable to keep bees for honey.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | profitable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | bees |  |  |  | for honey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The messenger hoped for a profitable office.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:profitable:x3:1
# text = The messenger hoped for a profitable office.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | the messenger |  |  |  |  | for a profitable office | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for office=Theme |

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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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