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title: diligently — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «diligently» in the school dictionary: Diligently means working hard and carefully, giving full attention to a task. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# diligently

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**Who acts:** She, her, He, You, King · **What happens:** mean, work, give, practise, spell, search · **To what, where:** full attention, task, spellings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Diligently means working hard and carefully, giving full attention to a task.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:diligently:m1:1
# text = Diligently means working hard and carefully, giving full attention to a task.
1	Diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | diligently *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | full attention | a task |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to task=Recipient |

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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 practised her spellings diligently every night.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:diligently:x1:1
# text = She practised her spellings diligently every night.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spellings	spelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | past | She | her spellings |  |  | night | diligently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spell** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He searched for the hook most diligently.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:diligently:x2:1
# text = He searched for the hook most diligently.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | He |  |  |  |  | for the hook; diligently *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for hook=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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You have watched diligently, said the King.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:diligently:x3:1
# text = You have watched diligently, said the King.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | diligently *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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