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title: shinny — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «shinny» in the school dictionary: Shinny is a simple game like hockey, played with sticks and a ball or puck on grass or ice. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# shinny

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**Who acts:** Shinny, We, three brothers, you, us · **What happens:** be, play, have, let · **To what, where:** simple game, match, shinny, best shinny players, town, us

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Shinny is a simple game like hockey, played with sticks and a ball or puck on grass or ice.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shinny:m1:1
# text = Shinny is a simple game like hockey, played with sticks and a ball or puck on grass or ice.
1	Shinny	shinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	puck	puck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Shinny | a simple game |  |  |  | like hockey | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | participle |  | a simple game *not said here* |  |  |  | with sticks and a ball or puck on grass or ice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stick=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We had a match at shinny on the lawn.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shinny:x1:1
# text = We had a match at shinny on the lawn.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	shinny	shinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We | a match |  | shinny |  | on the lawn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The three brothers were the best shinny players in the town.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shinny:x2:1
# text = The three brothers were the best shinny players in the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	shinny	shinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the three brothers | the best shinny players |  | the town |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Let us play shinny in the park after school.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shinny:x3:1
# text = Let us play shinny in the park after school.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	shinny	shinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | us *not said here* | shinny |  | the park | after school |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shinny=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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