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title: nimbly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «nimbly» in the school dictionary: Nimbly means quickly and lightly, with easy, quick movements: the cat ran nimbly up the tree. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# nimbly

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**Who acts:** Nimbly, cat, monkey, hare · **What happens:** mean, run, climb, hop · **To what, where:** tree, platform

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«nimbly» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [nimbly in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nimbly.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Nimbly means quickly and lightly, with easy, quick movements: the cat ran nimbly up the tree.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nimbly:m1:1
# text = Nimbly means quickly and lightly, with easy, quick movements: the cat ran nimbly up the tree.
1	Nimbly	Nimbly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Nimbly |  |  |  |  | with easy quick movements; quickly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | past | the cat |  |  | the tree |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory |

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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 monkey climbed nimbly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nimbly:x1:1
# text = The monkey climbed nimbly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The hare hopped nimbly onto the platform.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nimbly:x2:1
# text = The hare hopped nimbly onto the platform.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **hop** | past | the hare |  |  | the platform |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto platform=Trajectory |

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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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