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title: vaudeville — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «vaudeville» in the school dictionary: A vaudeville is a light stage show with songs, jokes and short acts, popular long ago. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# vaudeville

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**Who acts:** vaudeville, We · **What happens:** be, show, put, see, have · **To what, where:** light stage, theatre, vaudeville, short vaudeville, dancing

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A vaudeville is a light stage show with songs, jokes and short acts, popular long ago.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vaudeville:m1:1
# text = A vaudeville is a light stage show with songs, jokes and short acts, popular long ago.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vaudeville	vaudeville	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a light stage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a vaudeville |  |  |  |  | with songs and jokes and short acts | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The theatre put on a vaudeville with funny songs.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vaudeville:x1:1
# text = The theatre put on a vaudeville with funny songs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vaudeville	vaudeville	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  | the theatre *not said here* |  | a vaudeville |  | with funny songs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on vaudeville=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We saw a short vaudeville about a thief.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vaudeville:x2:1
# text = We saw a short vaudeville about a thief.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	vaudeville	vaudeville	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | We | a short vaudeville |  |  |  | about a thief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vaudeville=Stimulus |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The vaudeville had dancing and jokes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vaudeville:x3:1
# text = The vaudeville had dancing and jokes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vaudeville	vaudeville	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the vaudeville | dancing and jokes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Patient |

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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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