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title: unravel — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unravel» in the school dictionary: To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unravel

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**Who acts:** She, web, you · **What happens:** undo, pull, work out, understand, unravell, make · **To what, where:** knitting, threads, answer, old scarf, new one, wind

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unravel:m1:1
# text = To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	undo	undo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	_	2	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | to-infinitive |  | knitting or cloth |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Patient |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund |  | the threads |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |

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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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To work out the answer to something tangled or hard to understand.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unravel:m2:1
# text = To work out the answer to something tangled or hard to understand.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
8	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work out** | to-infinitive |  | the answer |  |  |  | to something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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She unravelled the old scarf to make a new one.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unravel:x1:1
# text = She unravelled the old scarf to make a new one.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	unravelled	unravell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unravell** | past | She | the old scarf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The spider's web unravelled in the wind.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unravel:x2:1
# text = The spider's web unravelled in the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	unravelled	unravell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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 | **unravell** | past | the spider's web |  |  | the wind |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Can you unravel this puzzle?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unravel:x3:1
# text = Can you unravel this puzzle?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	unravel	unravel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unravel** | can | you | this puzzle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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