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title: scat — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «scat» in the school dictionary: «Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# scat

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**Who acts:** Scat, animal, Miss, they, mice, cat · **What happens:** be, make, go, shoo, dash off, say · **To what, where:** shout, animal, scat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«scat» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [scat in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/scat.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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«Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scat:m1:1
# text = «Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Scat	scat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pest	pest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shoo	shoo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Scat | a shout |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a animal or a pest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | a animal or a pest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shoo** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To scat is to run away quickly, to dash off.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scat:m2:1
# text = To scat is to run away quickly, to dash off.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scat	scat	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	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dash	dash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away, quickly, run *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dash off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Scat, you cat!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scat:x1:1
# text = Scat, you cat!
1	Scat	scat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	compound	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When Miss Rabbit said «scat», they scatted.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scat:x2:1
# text = When Miss Rabbit said «scat», they scatted.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	scat	scat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scatted	scat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Miss | scat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scat=Topic |
| 2 | **scat** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The mice scatted off the table when the cat came.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scat:x3:1
# text = The mice scatted off the table when the cat came.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scatted	scat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scat** | past | the mice |  |  |  |  | off the table | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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