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title: prosperous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «prosperous» in the school dictionary: Doing well; having plenty of money, success and good fortune. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# prosperous

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**Who acts:** farmer, They, prosperous town, voyage · **What happens:** do, have, become, live, be · **To what, where:** plenty, prosperous life, big house, busy shops

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«prosperous» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: [prosperous in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/prosperous.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Doing well; having plenty of money, success and good fortune.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosperous:m1:1
# text = Doing well; having plenty of money, success and good fortune.
1	Doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | plenty of money and success and good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |

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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 farmer became prosperous.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosperous:x1:1
# text = The farmer became prosperous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the farmer |  |  |  |  | prosperous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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They lived a prosperous life in a big house.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosperous:x2:1
# text = They lived a prosperous life in a big house.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | They | a prosperous life |  | a big house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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A prosperous town has busy shops and markets.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosperous:x3:1
# text = A prosperous town has busy shops and markets.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a prosperous town | busy shops and markets |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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The voyage was short and prosperous.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosperous:x4:1
# text = The voyage was short and prosperous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	prosperous	prosperous	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 voyage |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the voyage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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