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title: bellicose — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bellicose» in the school dictionary: Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bellicose

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**Who acts:** Bellicose, bellicose goat, goat, bellicose knight · **What happens:** mean, start, quarrel, butt, meet, want · **To what, where:** fight, goat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bellicose:m1:1
# text = Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel.
1	Bellicose	Bellicose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Bellicose |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Bellicose *not said here* | a fight or argument |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | Bellicose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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 bellicose goat butted every goat it met.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bellicose:x1:1
# text = The bellicose goat butted every goat it met.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bellicose	bellicose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	butted	butt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **butt** | participle | the bellicose goat | every goat |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent goat=Instrument |
| 2 | **meet** | past | goat | every goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Co-Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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A sturdy, bellicose, forthright man he was.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bellicose:x2:1
# text = A sturdy, bellicose, forthright man he was.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sturdy	sturdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bellicose	bellicose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	forthright	forthright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The bellicose knight wanted a fight with everyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bellicose:x3:1
# text = The bellicose knight wanted a fight with everyone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bellicose	bellicose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the bellicose knight | a fight |  |  |  | with everyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=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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