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title: droll — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «droll» in the school dictionary: funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# droll

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**Who acts:** clown, That, he · **What happens:** make, be, droll, laugh · **To what, where:** droll face, droll joke, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:droll:m1:1
# text = funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way.
1	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The clown made a droll face.

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the clown | a droll face |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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That was a droll joke.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:droll:x2:1
# text = That was a droll joke.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	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	droll	droll	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | a droll joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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"How droll the world is!" he laughed.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:droll:x3:1
# text = "How droll the world is!" he laughed.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	droll	droll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **droll** *in a quote* | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | 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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