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title: inelegant — English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «inelegant» in the English dictionary: Not graceful or smooth; clumsy. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# inelegant

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«inelegant» in the English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [inelegant in the English dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/inelegant/).

## In Jewish tradition, meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not graceful or smooth; clumsy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:english:inelegant:m1:1
# text = Not graceful or smooth; clumsy.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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