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title: rickety — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «rickety» in the school dictionary: Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# rickety

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**Who acts:** old chair, We · **What happens:** break, fall apart, creak, be, climb · **To what, where:** rickety bridge, rickety ladder

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:rickety:m1:1
# text = Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose.
1	Shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall apart** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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 rickety bridge creaked under us.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:rickety:x1:1
# text = The rickety bridge creaked under us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rickety	rickety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	creaked	creak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** | participle |  | the rickety bridge *not said here* |  |  |  | under us | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under we=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The old chair was rickety.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:rickety:x2:1
# text = The old chair was rickety.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	rickety	rickety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old chair |  |  |  |  | rickety *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We climbed the rickety ladder to the loft.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:rickety:x3:1
# text = We climbed the rickety ladder to the loft.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rickety	rickety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | We | the rickety ladder |  |  |  | to the loft *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent to loft=Result |

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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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