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title: velveteen — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «velveteen» in the school dictionary: Velveteen is a soft cloth like velvet, made of cotton, often used for toys and clothes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# velveteen

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**Who acts:** Velveteen, coat, velveteen rabbit · **What happens:** be, make, use, have, hold · **To what, where:** soft cloth, toy rabbit, velveteen collar

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Velveteen is a soft cloth like velvet, made of cotton, often used for toys and clothes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:velveteen:m1:1
# text = Velveteen is a soft cloth like velvet, made of cotton, often used for toys and clothes.
1	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Velveteen | a soft cloth |  |  |  | like velvet | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a soft cloth *not said here* |  |  |  | of cotton | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for toys and clothes; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The toy rabbit was made of velveteen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:velveteen:x1:1
# text = The toy rabbit was made of velveteen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the toy rabbit |  |  |  | of velveteen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her coat had a velveteen collar.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:velveteen:x2:1
# text = Her coat had a velveteen collar.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	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 | Her coat | a velveteen collar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The velveteen rabbit was soft to hold.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:velveteen:x3:1
# text = The velveteen rabbit was soft to hold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the velveteen rabbit |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the velveteen rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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