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title: frisky — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «frisky» in the school dictionary: Lively, full of play and energy, and not keeping still. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# frisky

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**Who acts:** frisky kid, frisky puppy · **What happens:** not keep, jump, wriggle, not sit · **To what, where:** roof, frisky fish, net

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Lively, full of play and energy, and not keeping still.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frisky:m1:1
# text = Lively, full of play and energy, and not keeping still.
1	Lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The frisky kid jumped onto the roof.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frisky:x1:1
# text = The frisky kid jumped onto the roof.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the frisky kid |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto roof=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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A frisky fish wriggled in the net.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frisky:x2:1
# text = A frisky fish wriggled in the net.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **wriggle** | participle |  | a frisky fish *not said here* |  | the net |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The frisky puppy would not sit still.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frisky:x3:1
# text = The frisky puppy would not sit still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sit** | would | the frisky puppy |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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