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title: drizzly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «drizzly» in the school dictionary: Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# drizzly

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**Who acts:** fine rain, It, We, forecast, drizzly day · **What happens:** describe, fall, be, play, say, make · **To what, where:** weather, drizzly morning, Dublin, windows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«drizzly» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 5 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: [drizzly in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drizzly.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:m1:1
# text = Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily.
1	Drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present |  | weather |  |  |  | with light and fine rain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent weather=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | fine rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | steadily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP 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}

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It was a drizzly morning in Dublin.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:x1:1
# text = It was a drizzly morning in Dublin.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a drizzly morning |  | Dublin |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We played outside even though it was drizzly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:x2:1
# text = We played outside even though it was drizzly.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | We |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | drizzly *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The forecast says drizzly with sunny spells.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:x3:1
# text = The forecast says drizzly with sunny spells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forecast	forecast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the forecast |  |  |  |  | drizzly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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A drizzly day makes the windows misty.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:x4:1
# text = A drizzly day makes the windows misty.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a drizzly day | the windows |  |  |  | misty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset window=Product |

## Example 5 {#x5}

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It's been drizzly all week.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drizzly:x5:1
# text = It's been drizzly all week.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	drizzly	drizzly	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  | week | drizzly *property* | tree rules |

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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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