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title: verdure — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «verdure» in the school dictionary: Verdure is fresh green plants, grass and leaves growing thickly over the land. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# verdure

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**Who acts:** Verdure, sweet fragrance, It, Ice Maiden · **What happens:** be, leave, grow, melt · **To what, where:** fresh green plants, land, summer

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«verdure» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [verdure in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/verdure.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Verdure is fresh green plants, grass and leaves growing thickly over the land.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:verdure:m1:1
# text = Verdure is fresh green plants, grass and leaves growing thickly over the land.
1	Verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Verdure | fresh green plants and grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Verdure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | Verdure *not said here* |  |  | the land |  | thickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=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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There was a sweet fragrance from the fresh green verdure.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:verdure:x1:1
# text = There was a sweet fragrance from the fresh green verdure.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a sweet fragrance from the fresh green verdure |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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It was summer, and the Ice Maiden was melting amidst the green verdure.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:verdure:x2:1
# text = It was summer, and the Ice Maiden was melting amidst the green verdure.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | summer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt** | past · progressive | the Ice Maiden | summer *not said here* |  |  |  | amidst the green verdure | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient summer=Result |

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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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