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title: revile — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «revile» in the school dictionary: To insult someone harshly and angrily, using bitter words. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# revile

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**Who acts:** fox, bully, you, people · **What happens:** insult, use, revile, not revile, be · **To what, where:** someone, bitter words, lion, bars, new girl, people

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To insult someone harshly and angrily, using bitter words.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:revile:m1:1
# text = To insult someone harshly and angrily, using bitter words.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	insult	insult	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insult** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | harshly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
| 2 | **use** | gerund |  | bitter words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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 fox reviled the lion from behind the bars.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:revile:x1:1
# text = The fox reviled the lion from behind the bars.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reviled	revile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revile** | past | the fox | the lion |  | the bars |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The bully reviled the new girl.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:revile:x2:1
# text = The bully reviled the new girl.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reviled	revile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revile** | past | the bully | the new girl |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Do not revile people who are weaker than you.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:revile:x3:1
# text = Do not revile people who are weaker than you.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	revile	revile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **revile** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | than you; weak *property* | 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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