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title: sundown — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sundown» in the school dictionary: Sundown is the time when the sun goes down; sunset. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

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# sundown

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**Who acts:** Sundown, sun, We · **What happens:** be, go down · **To what, where:** time

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Sundown is the time when the sun goes down; sunset.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sundown:m1:1
# text = Sundown is the time when the sun goes down; sunset.
1	Sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sundown | the time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Even after sundown it was hot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sundown:x1:1
# text = Even after sundown it was hot.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sundown |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We must be home before sundown.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sundown:x2:1
# text = We must be home before sundown.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | We |  |  |  | before sundown | home *property* | 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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