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title: thieving — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «thieving» in the school dictionary: Stealing things that belong to other people. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# thieving

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**Who acts:** things, thieving crows, thieving fox, you · **What happens:** steal, belong, thieve, take, do, not be · **To what, where:** things, corn, hen, thieving magpie

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Stealing things that belong to other people.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:thieving:m1:1
# text = Stealing things that belong to other people.
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** | present | things |  |  |  |  | to other people | 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The thieving crows took the corn.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:thieving:x1:1
# text = The thieving crows took the corn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the thieving crows | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The thieving fox stole a hen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:thieving:x2:1
# text = The thieving fox stole a hen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | past | the thieving fox | a hen |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hen=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Don't be a thieving magpie!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:thieving:x3:1
# text = Don't be a thieving magpie!
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | infinitive |  | a thieving magpie |  |  |  |  | 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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