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title: contentedly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «contentedly» in the school dictionary: In a happy, calm way, feeling pleased with what you have. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# contentedly

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**Who acts:** happy calm way, you, We, baby · **What happens:** feel, have, purr, eat, sleep · **To what, where:** cat, picnic, grass

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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In a happy, calm way, feeling pleased with what you have.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:contentedly:m1:1
# text = In a happy, calm way, feeling pleased with what you have.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | a happy calm way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a happy calm way; pleased *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 cat purred contentedly by the fire.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:contentedly:x1:1
# text = The cat purred contentedly by the fire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	purred	purr	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **purr** | participle |  | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  | by the fire; contentedly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We ate our picnic contentedly on the grass.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:contentedly:x2:1
# text = We ate our picnic contentedly on the grass.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | We | our picnic |  | the grass |  | contentedly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picnic=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The baby slept contentedly all afternoon.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:contentedly:x3:1
# text = The baby slept contentedly all afternoon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | the baby |  |  |  | afternoon | contentedly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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