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title: blithe — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «blithe» in the school dictionary: Cheerful, happy and carefree. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# blithe

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**Who acts:** blithe bird, She, blithe boy · **What happens:** show, sing, be, whistle down · **To what, where:** lane

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«blithe» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [blithe in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blithe.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Cheerful, happy and carefree.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blithe:m1:1
# text = Cheerful, happy and carefree.
1	Cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	carefree	carefree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Careless, showing little worry, sometimes too much so.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blithe:m2:1
# text = Careless, showing little worry, sometimes too much so.
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The blithe bird sang all day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blithe:x1:1
# text = The blithe bird sang all day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the blithe bird |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She was blithe about the storm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blithe:x2:1
# text = She was blithe about the storm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | about the storm; blithe *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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A blithe boy whistled down the lane.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blithe:x3:1
# text = A blithe boy whistled down the lane.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle down** | past | a blithe boy | the lane |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lane=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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