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title: beseeching — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «beseeching» in the school dictionary: Asking in a begging, pleading way. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# beseeching

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**Who acts:** you, beseeching eyes · **What happens:** ask, plead, not open, cry, beseech, beg · **To what, where:** begging, way, door, beseeching voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Asking in a begging, pleading way.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beseeching:m1:1
# text = Asking in a begging, pleading way.
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	begging	begging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pleading	plead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  | a begging |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | gerund |  | way |  |  |  |  | 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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«Won't you open the door?» cried Pinocchio in a beseeching voice.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beseeching:x1:1
# text = «Won't you open the door?» cried Pinocchio in a beseeching voice.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **open** *in a quote* | future | you | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  | a beseeching voice |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **beseech** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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His beseeching eyes begged for food.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beseeching:x2:1
# text = His beseeching eyes begged for food.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beseech** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | His beseeching eyes |  |  |  |  | for food | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic |

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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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