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title: prosaic — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «prosaic» in the school dictionary: Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# prosaic

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**Who acts:** cow, prosaic answer, His, We, story · **What happens:** be, disappoint, answer, go, fly, have · **To what, where:** prosaic animal, children, flying carpet, prosaic ending

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«prosaic» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: [prosaic in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/prosaic.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosaic:m1:1
# text = Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting.
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosaic:x1:1
# text = The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the cow | a prosaic animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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His prosaic answer disappointed the children.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosaic:x2:1
# text = His prosaic answer disappointed the children.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disappointed	disappoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappoint** | past | His prosaic answer | the children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosaic:x3:1
# text = We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | We | a flying carpet |  |  |  | by a prosaic bus | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bus=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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The story had a prosaic ending.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:prosaic:x4:1
# text = The story had a prosaic ending.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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