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title: quaint — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «quaint» in the school dictionary: Quaint means charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# quaint

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**Who acts:** Quaint, village, old man, Limmershin, We, shop · **What happens:** mean, have, wear, be, look, sign · **To what, where:** quaint little cottages, quaint hat, quaint little bird

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Quaint means charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:quaint:m1:1
# text = Quaint means charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way.
1	Quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	charmingly	charmingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	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 | Quaint |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 village had quaint little cottages.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:quaint:x1:1
# text = The village had quaint little cottages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 village | quaint little cottages |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The old man wore a quaint hat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:quaint:x2:1
# text = The old man wore a quaint hat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the old man | a quaint hat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Limmershin is a quaint little bird.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:quaint:x3:1
# text = Limmershin is a quaint little bird.
1	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is a** | present | Limmershin | a quaint little bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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We looked at the quaint shop with its wooden sign.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:quaint:x4:1
# text = We looked at the quaint shop with its wooden sign.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | We |  |  |  |  | with shop's wooden sign; at the quaint shop | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shop=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** |  | shop |  |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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