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title: squadron — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «squadron» in the school dictionary: A squadron is a group of ships, aircraft or soldiers that fight together as one unit. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# squadron

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**Who acts:** squadron, soldiers, I · **What happens:** be, fight · **To what, where:** group, Denmark

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«squadron» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [squadron in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/squadron.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A squadron is a group of ships, aircraft or soldiers that fight together as one unit.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:squadron:m1:1
# text = A squadron is a group of ships, aircraft or soldiers that fight together as one unit.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a squadron | a group |  |  |  | of ships | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | present | soldiers |  |  |  |  | as one unit; together *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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On the left hand of the second squadron.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:squadron:x1:1
# text = On the left hand of the second squadron.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 2 {#x2}

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I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:squadron:x2:1
# text = I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	board	board	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Steene	Steene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bille	Bille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the Denmark and Steene Bille's squadron |  |  | 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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