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title: tallow — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tallow» in the school dictionary: Tallow is hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tallow

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**Who acts:** Tallow, sausage, you · **What happens:** be, use, make, not do, know · **To what, where:** hard animal fat, candles, candle, storeroom, story

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Tallow is hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tallow:m1:1
# text = Tallow is hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap.
1	Tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tallow | hard animal fat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | hard animal fat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | candles and soap |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset candle=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}

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The candle was made of tallow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tallow:x1:1
# text = The candle was made of tallow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the candle |  |  |  | of tallow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Mouldy bread, tallow candle, and sausage were in the storeroom.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tallow:x2:1
# text = Mouldy bread, tallow candle, and sausage were in the storeroom.
1	Mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sausage |  |  | the storeroom |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Don't you know any story about bacon and tallow?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tallow:x3:1
# text = Don't you know any story about bacon and tallow?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | you | any story |  |  |  | about bacon and tallow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |

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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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