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title: prodigious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «prodigious» in the school dictionary: Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# prodigious

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**Who acts:** hero, song, bird, He · **What happens:** have, be, sing, run · **To what, where:** prodigious strength, prodigious speed

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prodigious:m1:1
# text = Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The hero had prodigious strength.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prodigious:x1:1
# text = The hero had prodigious strength.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the hero | prodigious strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The bird's song was prodigious and loud.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prodigious:x2:1
# text = The bird's song was prodigious and loud.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bird's song |  |  |  |  | prodigious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the bird's song *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He ran at a prodigious speed.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prodigious:x3:1
# text = He ran at a prodigious speed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | He |  |  | a prodigious speed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=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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