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title: daintily — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «daintily» in the school dictionary: In a neat, delicate and careful way, especially when eating or moving. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# daintily

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**Who acts:** monkey, She, cat · **What happens:** eat, move, take, pick up, step · **To what, where:** food, cup, wet grass

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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In a neat, delicate and careful way, especially when eating or moving.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:daintily:m1:1
# text = In a neat, delicate and careful way, especially when eating or moving.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The monkey took the food daintily.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:daintily:x1:1
# text = The monkey took the food daintily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	daintily	daintily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the monkey | the food |  |  |  | daintily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She picked up the cup daintily with two fingers.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:daintily:x2:1
# text = She picked up the cup daintily with two fingers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	daintily	daintily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | She | the cup |  |  |  | with two fingers; daintily *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Topic |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The cat stepped daintily over the wet grass.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:daintily:x3:1
# text = The cat stepped daintily over the wet grass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	daintily	daintily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | the cat |  |  | the wet grass |  | daintily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory |

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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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