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title: marvelous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «marvelous» in the school dictionary: Marvelous means wonderful, very surprising or very good. (US spelling of marvellous). Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# marvelous

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**Who acts:** Marvelous, He · **What happens:** mean, spell, hear, not sit down · **To what, where:** marvellous

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Marvelous means wonderful, very surprising or very good. (US spelling of marvellous).

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*Sentence 1:* Marvelous means wonderful, very surprising or very good.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:marvelous:m1:1
# text = Marvelous means wonderful, very surprising or very good.
1	Marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* (US spelling of marvellous).

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:marvelous:m1:2
# text = (US spelling of marvellous).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marvellous	marvellous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** |  |  | marvellous |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: of=patient |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:marvelous:x1:1
# text = What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country!
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Who has ever heard of such a marvelous place?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:marvelous:x2:1
# text = Who has ever heard of such a marvelous place?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | ever | of such marvelous place | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He had never sat down to such a marvelous feast.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:marvelous:x3:1
# text = He had never sat down to such a marvelous feast.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sit down** | past · perfect | He |  |  |  |  | to such marvelous feast | 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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