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title: A thesaurus gives words with similar meanings, but not every synonym… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics
description: A thesaurus gives words with similar meanings, but not every synonym fits the sentence or the reader. Who acts: thesaurus, synonym. A sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Editing and redrafting, sentence 12

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A thesaurus gives words with similar meanings, but not every synonym fits the sentence or the reader.

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**Who acts:** thesaurus, synonym · **What happens:** give, fit · **To what, where:** words, sentence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thesaurus, synonym), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:12
# text = A thesaurus gives words with similar meanings, but not every synonym fits the sentence or the reader.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thesaurus	thesaurus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	synonym	synonym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a thesaurus | words |  |  |  | with similar meanings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | present | every synonym | the sentence or the reader |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:12`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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