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title: perplexed — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «perplexed» in the school dictionary: Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# perplexed

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** understand, perplex, not joke · **To what, where:** something, yokel awaking, I

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perplexed:m1:1
# text = Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something.
1	Puzzled	puzzled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	unsure	unsure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |

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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 yokel awaking is perplexed.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perplexed:x1:1
# text = The yokel awaking is perplexed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yokel	yokel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	awaking	awaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	perplexed	perplex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perplex** | present · passive |  | the yokel awaking |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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"Please, you must not joke with me, I am greatly perplexed."

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:perplexed:x2:1
# text = "Please, you must not joke with me, I am greatly perplexed."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	joke	joke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	perplexed	perplex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  | with me | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **perplex** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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