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title: dapper — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «dapper» in the school dictionary: Neat, smart and trim in dress and movement, often small and quick. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# dapper

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**Who acts:** dapper, He, dapper mouse · **What happens:** come in, wear, ride · **To what, where:** dapper blue coat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Neat, smart and trim in dress and movement, often small and quick.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dapper:m1:1
# text = Neat, smart and trim in dress and movement, often small and quick.
1	Neat	neat	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	trim	trim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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A dapper little old man came in.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dapper:x1:1
# text = A dapper little old man came in.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dapper	dapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | a dapper and little old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He wore a dapper blue coat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dapper:x2:1
# text = He wore a dapper blue coat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dapper	dapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | He | a dapper blue coat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The dapper mouse rode proudly on his horse.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dapper:x3:1
# text = The dapper mouse rode proudly on his horse.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dapper	dapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the dapper mouse |  |  |  |  | on mouse's horse; proudly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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