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title: swine — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «swine» in the school dictionary: A swine is a pig. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# swine

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**Who acts:** swine, use, farmer, Athene, him, You · **What happens:** be, feed, find, swine, take · **To what, where:** pig, cruel person, swine, him, sweets

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«swine» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [swine in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/swine.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A swine is a pig.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:swine:m1:1
# text = A swine is a pig.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swine	swine	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	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	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 swine | a pig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: insult — kept apart, not parsed.

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A swine is a cruel or nasty person; this use is rude.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:swine:m2:1
# text = A swine is a cruel or nasty person; this use is rude.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a swine | a cruel person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | this use |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The farmer fed the swine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:swine:x1:1
# text = The farmer fed the swine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fed	feed	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	swine	swine	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 | **feed** | past | the farmer | the swine |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Recipient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Athene found him feeding swine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:swine:x2:1
# text = Athene found him feeding swine.
1	Athene	Athene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Athene | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund | him *= he* *not said here* | swine |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Recipient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You swine, you took my sweets!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:swine:x3:1
# text = You swine, you took my sweets!
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swine** |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | you | my sweets |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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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