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title: pucker — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «pucker» in the school dictionary: To pucker is to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the lips, the face or the brow. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# pucker

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**Who acts:** face, surprise, She, brow · **What happens:** be, gather up, pucker, whistle, speak, try · **To what, where:** whistle, lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To pucker is to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the lips, the face or the brow.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pucker:m1:1
# text = To pucker is to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the lips, the face or the brow.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pucker	pucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wrinkle	wrinkle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrinkle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into small folds and the lips and the face or the brow | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into fold=Co-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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His face puckered in a whistle of surprise.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pucker:x1:1
# text = His face puckered in a whistle of surprise.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	puckered	pucker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pucker** | participle | His face |  |  | a whistle of surprise |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **whistle** |  | surprise |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: of=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She puckered her lips before she spoke.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pucker:x2:1
# text = She puckered her lips before she spoke.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puckered	pucker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pucker** | past | She | her lips |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her brow puckered as she tried to remember.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pucker:x3:1
# text = Her brow puckered as she tried to remember.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	puckered	pucker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pucker** | past | Her brow |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | past | brow |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remember** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | brow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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