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title: distantly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «distantly» in the school dictionary: Not closely; only slightly or loosely. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# distantly

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**Who acts:** They, song · **What happens:** be, sound

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«distantly» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [distantly in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/distantly.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not closely; only slightly or loosely.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:distantly:m1:1
# text = Not closely; only slightly or loosely.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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They were distantly related.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:distantly:x1:1
# text = They were distantly related.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	distantly	distantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | They |  |  |  |  | distantly, related *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The song sounded distantly familiar.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:distantly:x2:1
# text = The song sounded distantly familiar.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	distantly	distantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the song |  |  |  |  | familiar *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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