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title: skirl — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «skirl» in the school dictionary: A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# skirl

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**Who acts:** pipes, boy, skirl · **What happens:** make, give, let out, skirl · **To what, where:** cry, loud skirl, skirl, giant jump, gulls, harbour

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:skirl:m1:1
# text = A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | such cry |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product |

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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 -->
The pipes gave a loud skirl.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:skirl:x1:1
# text = The pipes gave a loud skirl.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skirl	skirl	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 | **give** | past | the pipes | a loud skirl |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skirl=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boy let out a skirl that made the giant jump.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:skirl:x2:1
# text = The boy let out a skirl that made the giant jump.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skirl	skirl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let out** | past | the boy | a skirl |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skirl=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | a skirl | the giant jump |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jump=Product |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The gulls skirled over the harbour.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:skirl:x3:1
# text = The gulls skirled over the harbour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	skirled	skirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **skirl** | participle |  | the gulls *not said here* |  | the harbour |  |  | 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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