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title: fantastical — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fantastical» in the school dictionary: Fantastical means strange, wonderful or unreal, like something from a dream or a fairy tale. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fantastical

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**Who acts:** Fantastical, fantastical beasts, She, imagination, His · **What happens:** mean, be, have, imagine · **To what, where:** wings, fantastical idea

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«fantastical» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [fantastical in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fantastical.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Fantastical means strange, wonderful or unreal, like something from a dream or a fairy tale.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fantastical:m1:1
# text = Fantastical means strange, wonderful or unreal, like something from a dream or a fairy tale.
1	Fantastical	fantastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	unreal	unreal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Fantastical |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Fantastical can mean too imaginative to be true.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fantastical:m2:1
# text = Fantastical can mean too imaginative to be true.
1	Fantastical	Fantastical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can | Fantastical |  |  |  |  | imaginative *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Fantastical *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The fantastical beasts in the book had wings and horns.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fantastical:x1:1
# text = The fantastical beasts in the book had wings and horns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fantastical	fantastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the fantastical beasts in the book | wings and horns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She had a fantastical idea.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fantastical:x2:1
# text = She had a fantastical idea.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fantastical	fantastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | She | a fantastical idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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His imagination was more fantastical than anyone's.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fantastical:x3:1
# text = His imagination was more fantastical than anyone's.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	fantastical	fantastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | His imagination |  |  |  |  | than anyone; fantastical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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