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title: fretful — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fretful» in the Judaism dictionary: Easily upset, complaining and bad-tempered. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fretful

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**What happens:** complain, temper, be, dwell · **To what, where:** desert land

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«fretful» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [fretful in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fretful.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Easily upset, complaining and bad-tempered.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:fretful:m1:1
# text = Easily upset, complaining and bad-tempered.
1	Easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman. (Writings PRO.21.19, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:fretful:x1:1
# text = It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	contentious	contentious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fretful	fretful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a desert land |  | a contentious woman *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |

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*Sentence 2:* (Writings PRO.21.19, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:fretful:x1:2
# text = (Writings PRO.21.19, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	PRO.21.19	PRO.21.19	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	JPS	JPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the Judaism 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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