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title: meekness — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «meekness» in the school dictionary: Meekness is quiet, gentle behaviour; a person with meekness is not proud, loud or angry. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# meekness

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**Who acts:** Meekness, person, He, beast, boy · **What happens:** be, not be, calm, show, tease, let · **To what, where:** children, meekness, he

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Meekness is quiet, gentle behaviour; a person with meekness is not proud, loud or angry.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:meekness:m1:1
# text = Meekness is quiet, gentle behaviour; a person with meekness is not proud, loud or angry.
1	Meekness	meekness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	meekness	meekness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Meekness |  |  |  |  | gentle behaviour *obl*; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a person with meekness |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a person with meekness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a person with meekness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 meekness of the lamb calmed the children.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:meekness:x1:1
# text = The meekness of the lamb calmed the children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meekness	meekness	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	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	calmed	calm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **calm** | past | the meekness of the lamb | the children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He showed meekness even when he was teased.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:meekness:x2:1
# text = He showed meekness even when he was teased.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	meekness	meekness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | He | meekness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meekness=Recipient |
| 2 | **tease** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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With meekness the beast let the boy come near.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:meekness:x3:1
# text = With meekness the beast let the boy come near.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	meekness	meekness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	near	near	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | the beast |  |  |  |  | with meekness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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