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title: tussle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tussle» in the school dictionary: A rough fight or struggle between two people. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tussle

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**Who acts:** two giants, We, boys · **What happens:** struggle, have, shriek, tussle · **To what, where:** tussle, Troll · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A rough fight or struggle between two people.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tussle:m1:1
# text = A rough fight or struggle between two people.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | between two people | vn battle-36.4 «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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The two giants had a tussle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tussle:x1:1
# text = The two giants had a tussle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tussle	tussle	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 | **have** | past | the two giants | a tussle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tussle=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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"We shall have a tussle for that!" shrieked the Troll.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tussle:x2:1
# text = "We shall have a tussle for that!" shrieked the Troll.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tussle	tussle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | We | a tussle |  |  |  | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tussle=Patient |
| 2 | **shriek** | past |  | the Troll |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The boys tussled over the ball.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tussle:x3:1
# text = The boys tussled over the ball.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tussled	tussle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **tussle** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | over the ball | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over ball=Theme |

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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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