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title: scullion — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «scullion» in the school dictionary: A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# scullion

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**Who acts:** kitchen, cooks, scullion, He · **What happens:** scrub, do, run, stop, be, wring · **To what, where:** pots, dirtiest jobs, neck, head cook

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scullion:m1:1
# text = A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scrubs	scrub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | present | a kitchen | pots and floors |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source |
| 2 | **do** | present | a kitchen *not said here* | the dirtiest jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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 cooks and scullions ran after the bird.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scullion:x1:1
# text = The cooks and scullions ran after the bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	scullions	scullion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the cooks and scullions |  |  |  | after the bird |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scullion:x2:1
# text = The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wring	wring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the scullion |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | scullion |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wring** | to-infinitive | scullion *not said here* | the bird's neck |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scullion:x3:1
# text = He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | He |  |  |  |  | as a scullion | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rise** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | a head cook |  |  |  |  | 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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