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title: underfoot — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «underfoot» in the school dictionary: Under your feet, on the ground where you walk. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# underfoot

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, crunch, mind, dig up · **To what, where:** feet, Dry leaves, stones underfoot, ground underfoot

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Under your feet, on the ground where you walk.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underfoot:m1:1
# text = Under your feet, on the ground where you walk.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | you |  |  | your feet |  | on the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Trajectory |

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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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Dry leaves crunched underfoot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underfoot:x1:1
# text = Dry leaves crunched underfoot.
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	crunched	crunch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	underfoot	underfoot	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crunch** | participle |  | Dry leaves *not said here* |  |  |  | underfoot *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Mind the stones underfoot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underfoot:x2:1
# text = Mind the stones underfoot.
1	Mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	underfoot	underfoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stones underfoot |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent underfoot=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Dig up the ground underfoot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underfoot:x3:1
# text = Dig up the ground underfoot.
1	Dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	underfoot	underfoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ground underfoot |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent underfoot=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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