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title: woodcut — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «woodcut» in the school dictionary: A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# woodcut

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**Who acts:** wood, printer, sheet, We · **What happens:** print, have, cut, make, show, press · **To what, where:** picture, block, design, woodcut, inked block, paper

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodcut:m1:1
# text = A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  | a picture *not said here* |  | a block of wood |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect | wood | a design |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  | a design *not said here* |  |  |  | into design | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into it=Patient |

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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 printer made a woodcut of a bird.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodcut:x1:1
# text = The printer made a woodcut of a bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	printer	printer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodcut	woodcut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the printer | a woodcut of a bird |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material woodcut=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The sheet showed a woodcut of a comet over the town.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodcut:x2:1
# text = The sheet showed a woodcut of a comet over the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodcut	woodcut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the sheet | a woodcut of a comet over the town |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodcut=Recipient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We pressed the inked block onto paper to make a woodcut.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodcut:x3:1
# text = We pressed the inked block onto paper to make a woodcut.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	inked	ink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woodcut	woodcut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | We | the inked block |  | paper |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Theme |
| 2 | **ink** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | a woodcut |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woodcut=Product |

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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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