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title: whitefish — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «whitefish» in the school dictionary: A whitefish is a fish with pale flesh that lives in cold lakes and rivers and is eaten as food. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# whitefish

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**Who acts:** whitefish, that, We · **What happens:** be, live, eat, go, catch, fry · **To what, where:** fish, cold lakes, tub, whitefish, lake

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A whitefish is a fish with pale flesh that lives in cold lakes and rivers and is eaten as food.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whitefish:m1:1
# text = A whitefish is a fish with pale flesh that lives in cold lakes and rivers and is eaten as food.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whitefish	whitefish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a whitefish | a fish |  |  |  | with pale flesh | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | that |  |  | cold lakes and rivers |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | present · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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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 whitefish went into the tub.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whitefish:x1:1
# text = The whitefish went into the tub.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whitefish	whitefish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	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	tub	tub	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 | **go** | past | the whitefish |  |  | the tub |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tub=Initial\_Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We caught a whitefish in the lake.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whitefish:x2:1
# text = We caught a whitefish in the lake.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whitefish	whitefish	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	lake	lake	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 | **catch** | past | We | a whitefish |  | the lake |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whitefish=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The cook fried mullets and whitefish.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whitefish:x3:1
# text = The cook fried mullets and whitefish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	mullets	mullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	whitefish	whitefish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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