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title: turquoise — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «turquoise» in the school dictionary: A blue-green stone used in jewellery. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# turquoise

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**Who acts:** She, sea · **What happens:** use, set, wear, look · **To what, where:** green stone, jewellery, clasp, turquoise ring, turquoise, sun.

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A blue-green stone used in jewellery.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turquoise:m1:1
# text = A blue-green stone used in jewellery.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a green stone *not said here* |  | jewellery |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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A blue-green colour.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turquoise:m2:1
# text = A blue-green colour.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The clasp was set with turquoise.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turquoise:x1:1
# text = The clasp was set with turquoise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clasp	clasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	turquoise	turquoise	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 | **set** | past · passive |  | the clasp |  |  |  | with turquoise | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with turquoise=Instrument |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She wore a turquoise ring.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turquoise:x2:1
# text = She wore a turquoise ring.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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 | **wear** | past | She | a turquoise ring |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The sea looked turquoise in the sun.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:turquoise:x3:1
# text = The sea looked turquoise in the sun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the sea | turquoise |  | the sun. |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme turquoise=Attribute |

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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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