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title: scoured — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «scoured» in the school dictionary: Scoured means rubbed hard until clean and shiny. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# scoured

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**Who acts:** Ralph, We · **What happens:** scour, mean, rub, search, lose · **To what, where:** part, floors, seas, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Scoured means rubbed hard until clean and shiny.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scoured:m1:1
# text = Scoured means rubbed hard until clean and shiny.
1	Scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rub** | participle |  |  |  |  | until clean | hard *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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 -->
Scoured means searched every part of a place carefully.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scoured:m2:1
# text = Scoured means searched every part of a place carefully.
1	Scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **search** | participle |  | every part of a place |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent part=Location |

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The floors were scoured and bright.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scoured:x1:1
# text = The floors were scoured and bright.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floors	floor	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	scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past · passive |  | the floors |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Ralph scoured the seas for ships.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scoured:x2:1
# text = Ralph scoured the seas for ships.
1	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past | Ralph | the seas |  |  |  | for ships | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Location for ship=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We scoured the garden for my lost ring.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scoured:x3:1
# text = We scoured the garden for my lost ring.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past | We | the garden |  |  |  | for my lost ring | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent garden=Location for ring=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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