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title: restive — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «restive» in the school dictionary: Unable to keep still, and restless. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# restive

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**Who acts:** restive horse, children · **What happens:** keep, unwill, control, manage, stamp, not stand

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«restive» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [restive in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/restive.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unable to keep still, and restless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:restive:m1:1
# text = Unable to keep still, and restless.
1	Unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Unwilling to be controlled, impatient, and difficult to manage.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:restive:m2:1
# text = Unwilling to be controlled, impatient, and difficult to manage.
1	Unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unwill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **manage** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The restive horse stamped and would not stand still.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:restive:x1:1
# text = The restive horse stamped and would not stand still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	restive	restive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | the restive horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | would | the restive horse *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The children grew restive during the long wait.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:restive:x2:1
# text = The children grew restive during the long wait.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	restive	restive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | restive *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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