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title: superintend — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «superintend» in the school dictionary: To superintend is to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it is done properly. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# superintend

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**Who acts:** mother, Mr · **What happens:** superintend, be, manage, make, do · **To what, where:** job, it, household, building work

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To superintend is to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it is done properly.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:superintend:m1:1
# text = To superintend is to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it is done properly.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	superintend	superintend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
19	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **superintend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | watch *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manage** | infinitive |  | a job or people |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **do** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 mother superintended the household.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:superintend:x1:1
# text = The mother superintended the household.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	superintended	superintend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **superintend** | past | the mother | the household |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent household=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mr Brown superintended the building work.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:superintend:x2:1
# text = Mr Brown superintended the building work.
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	superintended	superintend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	work	work	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 | **superintend** | past | Mr | the building work |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent work=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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