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title: ransacked — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ransacked» in the school dictionary: To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ransacked

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**Who acts:** thieves, They, Search parties · **What happens:** ransack, be, turn over, leave, eat, find · **To what, where:** place, everything, mess, house, kitchen, town

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ransacked:m1:1
# text = To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	ransack	ransack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	search	search	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	messily	messily	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | to-infinitive |  | a place |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent place=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | roughly, search *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn over** | gerund |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | place |  | a mess |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mess=Location |

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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 thieves ransacked the house for money.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ransacked:x1:1
# text = The thieves ransacked the house for money.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ransacked	ransack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | past | the thieves | the house |  |  |  | for money | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Location for money=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ransacked:x2:1
# text = They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ransacked	ransack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | past | They | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kitchen=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past | They *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ransacked:x3:1
# text = Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her.
1	Search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ransacked	ransack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | past | Search parties | the town |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | Search parties *not said here* | no sign of her |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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