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title: ostentation — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ostentation» in the school dictionary: Ostentation is showing off to be noticed, with too much display of wealth or fine things. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ostentation

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**Who acts:** Ostentation, house, She · **What happens:** show off, notice, display, be, speak, not be · **To what, where:** wealth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Ostentation is showing off to be noticed, with too much display of wealth or fine things.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ostentation:m1:1
# text = Ostentation is showing off to be noticed, with too much display of wealth or fine things.
1	Ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | present · progressive | Ostentation |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **display** |  |  | wealth |  |  |  |  | nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 rich man's house was full of ostentation.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ostentation:x1:1
# text = The rich man's house was full of ostentation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rich man's house |  |  |  |  | of ostentation; full *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She spoke with ostentation about her new car.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ostentation:x2:1
# text = She spoke with ostentation about her new car.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | She |  |  |  |  | with ostentation; about her new car | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent with ostentation=Co-Agent about car=Topic |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Ostentation is not the same as true kindness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ostentation:x3:1
# text = Ostentation is not the same as true kindness.
1	Ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	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** | present | Ostentation |  |  |  |  | as true kindness; same *property* | tree rules |

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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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