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title: reconnoitre — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «reconnoitre» in the school dictionary: To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# reconnoitre

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**Who acts:** scouts, we, you, me · **What happens:** go, look, do, find out, be, reconnoitre · **To what, where:** anything, valley, cave, me, spaniels, snowy hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:reconnoitre:m1:1
# text = To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at a area; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at area=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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 -->
The scouts went ahead to reconnoitre the valley.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:reconnoitre:x1:1
# text = The scouts went ahead to reconnoitre the valley.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scouts	scout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the scouts |  |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reconnoitre** | to-infinitive | the scouts *not said here* | the valley |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:reconnoitre:x2:1
# text = Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | we | the cave |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reconnoitre** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:reconnoitre:x3:1
# text = The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past · passive |  | the spaniels |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reconnoitre** | to-infinitive |  | the snowy hill |  |  |  |  | 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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