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title: genial — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «genial» in the school dictionary: Genial means friendly, warm and kind in manner, cheerful and pleasant. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# genial

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**Who acts:** Genial, old farmer, sun, genial voice, us · **What happens:** mean, be, smile, give, make, feel · **To what, where:** everyone, genial warmth, flowers, us

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Genial means friendly, warm and kind in manner, cheerful and pleasant.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:genial:m1:1
# text = Genial means friendly, warm and kind in manner, cheerful and pleasant.
1	Genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Genial |  |  |  |  | friendly *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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The old farmer was genial and smiled at everyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:genial:x1:1
# text = The old farmer was genial and smiled at everyone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old farmer |  |  |  |  | genial *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smile** | past | the old farmer *not said here* |  |  | everyone |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The sun gave genial warmth to the flowers.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:genial:x2:1
# text = The sun gave genial warmth to the flowers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the sun | genial warmth | the flowers |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme to flower=Recipient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Her genial voice made us feel welcome.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:genial:x3:1
# text = Her genial voice made us feel welcome.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Her genial voice | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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