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title: yam — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «yam» in the school dictionary: A yam is a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or orange flesh, grown in warm countries and cooked like a potato. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# yam

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**Who acts:** yam, Uncle, old man · **What happens:** be, grow, cook, pause, draw, blow · **To what, where:** large root vegetable, warm countries, pound yam, ashes, peeling

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A yam is a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or orange flesh, grown in warm countries and cooked like a potato.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:yam:m1:1
# text = A yam is a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or orange flesh, grown in warm countries and cooked like a potato.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a yam | a large root vegetable |  |  |  | with brown skin and firm white flesh | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  | warm countries |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a potato | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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}

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Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:yam:x1:1
# text = Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Uncle |  |  | here |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Uncle *not said here* | a pound yam |  | the ashes |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent yam=Theme out ash=Initial\_Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam, and proceeded to remove the peeling.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:yam:x2:1
# text = Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam, and proceeded to remove the peeling.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	peeling	peeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the old man | the ashes |  |  | then | from a smoking yam | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ash=Patient from yam=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **proceed** | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | the peeling |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peeling=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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