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title: enigma — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «enigma» in the school dictionary: An enigma is a puzzle or a mystery that is hard to understand. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# enigma

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**Who acts:** enigma, puzzle, happiness, strange message · **What happens:** be, understand · **To what, where:** puzzle, enigma, me

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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An enigma is a puzzle or a mystery that is hard to understand.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:enigma:m1:1
# text = An enigma is a puzzle or a mystery that is hard to understand.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enigma	enigma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a enigma | a puzzle or a mystery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a puzzle or a mystery |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive | a puzzle or a mystery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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What this happiness is, is an enigma to me.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:enigma:x1:1
# text = What this happiness is, is an enigma to me.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enigma	enigma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this happiness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a enigma | me |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The strange message was an enigma to all of us.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:enigma:x2:1
# text = The strange message was an enigma to all of us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	enigma	enigma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the strange message | a enigma |  |  |  | to all | 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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