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title: pleasurable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «pleasurable» in the school dictionary: Pleasurable means giving pleasure or enjoyment; nice to feel or do. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# pleasurable

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**Who acts:** Pleasurable, Reading, warm bath · **What happens:** mean, give, feel, do, tremble, read · **To what, where:** pleasure, twigs, pleasurable way, good story, pleasurable end

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Pleasurable means giving pleasure or enjoyment; nice to feel or do.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pleasurable:m1:1
# text = Pleasurable means giving pleasure or enjoyment; nice to feel or do.
1	Pleasurable	Pleasurable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Pleasurable |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | gerund | Pleasurable *not said here* | pleasure or enjoyment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Pleasurable *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | Pleasurable *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The twigs and leaves trembled in a pleasurable way.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pleasurable:x1:1
# text = The twigs and leaves trembled in a pleasurable way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pleasurable	pleasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | participle |  | the twigs and leaves *not said here* |  | a pleasurable way |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Reading a good story is pleasurable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pleasurable:x2:1
# text = Reading a good story is pleasurable.
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	pleasurable	pleasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | a good story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Reading |  |  |  |  | pleasurable *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The warm bath was a pleasurable end to the day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pleasurable:x3:1
# text = The warm bath was a pleasurable end to the day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pleasurable	pleasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the warm bath | a pleasurable end |  |  | day |  | 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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