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title: temporal — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «temporal» in the school dictionary: Temporal means worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or the Church. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# temporal

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**Who acts:** Temporal, king, Gold, Words · **What happens:** mean, belong, do, have, be · **To what, where:** temporal power, temporal goods, temporal words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Temporal means worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or the Church.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:temporal:m1:1
# text = Temporal means worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or the Church.
1	Temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	worldly	worldly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Temporal |  |  |  |  | worldly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | Temporal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this life and religion or the Church | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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Temporal means to do with time.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:temporal:m2:1
# text = Temporal means to do with time.
1	Temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Temporal |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The king had temporal power.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:temporal:x1:1
# text = The king had temporal power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	power	power	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 | **have** | past | the king | temporal power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Gold and land are temporal goods.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:temporal:x2:1
# text = Gold and land are temporal goods.
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	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 a** | present | Gold and land | temporal goods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Words like "then" and "soon" are temporal words.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:temporal:x3:1
# text = Words like "then" and "soon" are temporal words.
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Words | temporal words |  |  |  |  | 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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