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title: woodman — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «woodman» in the school dictionary: A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# woodman

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**Who acts:** man, woodman, Mercury · **What happens:** cut down, carry, work, chop, ask, find · **To what, where:** trees, wood, logs, back, old tree, two

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodman:m1:1
# text = A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** | present · progressive | a man | trees or cutting |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | a man *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **work** |  | a man |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 woodman carried logs on his back.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodman:x1:1
# text = The woodman carried logs on his back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the woodman | logs |  | woodman's back |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The woodman chopped the old tree in two.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodman:x2:1
# text = The woodman chopped the old tree in two.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | past | the woodman | the old tree |  | two |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient in two=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Mercury asked the woodman whose axe he had found.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woodman:x3:1
# text = Mercury asked the woodman whose axe he had found.
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mercury | the woodman and the woodman and the woodman's axe's axe |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | Mercury | the woodman and the woodman and axe's axe's axe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic |

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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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