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title: childlike — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «childlike» in the school dictionary: Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# childlike

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**Who acts:** Childlike, She, He, childlike faith · **What happens:** mean, trust, wonder, have, feel, make · **To what, where:** good way, childlike smile, childlike wonder, snow, her

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childlike:m1:1
# text = Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way.
1	Childlike	Childlike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Childlike |  |  |  |  | like a child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trust** | gerund | Childlike *not said here* |  |  | a good way |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Childlike *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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She had a childlike smile.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childlike:x1:1
# text = She had a childlike smile.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | She | a childlike smile |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He felt childlike wonder at the snow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childlike:x2:1
# text = He felt childlike wonder at the snow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | He | childlike wonder |  | the snow |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme at snow=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Her childlike faith made her happy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childlike:x3:1
# text = Her childlike faith made her happy.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Her childlike faith | her *= she* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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