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title: fickleness — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fickleness» in the school dictionary: The quality of being fickle: changing one's mind or feelings often and without warning. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fickleness

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**Who acts:** quality, one, fickleness, you · **What happens:** be, change, mind, spoil, make, beware · **To what, where:** mind, picnic, friends, fickleness

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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The quality of being fickle: changing one's mind or feelings often and without warning.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fickleness:m1:1
# text = The quality of being fickle: changing one's mind or feelings often and without warning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the quality |  |  |  |  | fickle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | the quality *not said here* | one's mind or feelings |  |  |  | without warning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **mind** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The fickleness of the weather spoiled our picnic.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fickleness:x1:1
# text = The fickleness of the weather spoiled our picnic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fickleness	fickleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | past | the fickleness of the weather | our picnic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Her fickleness made her friends sad.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fickleness:x2:1
# text = Her fickleness made her friends sad.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fickleness	fickleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	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 | Her fickleness | fickleness's friends |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Beware the fickleness of fortune.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fickleness:x3:1
# text = Beware the fickleness of fortune.
1	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fickleness	fickleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fickleness of fortune |  |  |  |  | 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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