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title: turnkey — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «turnkey» in the school dictionary: A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# turnkey

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**Who acts:** jailer, turnkey, I · **What happens:** unlock, lock, speak, run · **To what, where:** doors, cell door, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turnkey:m1:1
# text = A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jailer	jailer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	unlocks	unlock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unlock** | present | a jailer |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lock** | present | a jailer *not said here* | the doors of a prison |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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 turnkey locked the cell door.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turnkey:x1:1
# text = The turnkey locked the cell door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	locked	lock	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	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	door	door	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 | **lock** | past | the turnkey | the cell door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The turnkey spoke to his prisoners.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turnkey:x2:1
# text = The turnkey spoke to his prisoners.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the turnkey |  |  |  |  | to turnkey's prisoners | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to prisoner=Co-Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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I ran into the house of the turnkey.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turnkey:x3:1
# text = I ran into the house of the turnkey.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | I |  |  |  |  | into the house of the turnkey *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |

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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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