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title: impetuous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «impetuous» in the school dictionary: Impetuous means acting quickly and rashly, without stopping to think. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# impetuous

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**Who acts:** Impetuous, impetuous youth, you, impetuous child · **What happens:** mean, act, stop, think, ask, drive · **To what, where:** impetuous youth, chariot

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Impetuous means acting quickly and rashly, without stopping to think.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impetuous:m1:1
# text = Impetuous means acting quickly and rashly, without stopping to think.
1	Impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rashly	rashly	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Impetuous |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **act** *not said to happen* | gerund | Impetuous *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | Impetuous *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Impetuous *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 impetuous youth asked to drive the sun's chariot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impetuous:x1:1
# text = The impetuous youth asked to drive the sun's chariot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle |  | the impetuous youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the impetuous youth *not said here* | the sun's chariot |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme chariot=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Don't be so impetuous; think first.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impetuous:x2:1
# text = Don't be so impetuous; think first.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impetuous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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An impetuous child may run before looking.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impetuous:x3:1
# text = An impetuous child may run before looking.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | may | a impetuous child |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | a impetuous child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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