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title: underwood — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «underwood» in the school dictionary: Low bushes and shrubs growing under the tall trees of a wood. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# underwood

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**Who acts:** shrubs, fox, hare, We · **What happens:** grow, creep, lie, hide, lose · **To what, where:** tall trees, underwood, path

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Low bushes and shrubs growing under the tall trees of a wood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underwood:m1:1
# text = Low bushes and shrubs growing under the tall trees of a wood.
1	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | shrubs *not said here* |  |  | the tall trees of a wood |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

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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 fox crept into the underwood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underwood:x1:1
# text = The fox crept into the underwood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	underwood	underwood	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 | **creep** | past | the fox |  |  | the underwood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into underwood=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The hare lay hidden in the underwood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underwood:x2:1
# text = The hare lay hidden in the underwood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	underwood	underwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | the hare *not said here* |  |  | the underwood |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in underwood=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We lost the path in the underwood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:underwood:x3:1
# text = We lost the path in the underwood.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	underwood	underwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | We | the path |  | the underwood |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality |

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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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