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title: sagacious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sagacious» in the school dictionary: Wise and clever, able to judge well and understand what is best. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sagacious

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**Who acts:** sagacious owl, Athene, sagacious dog · **What happens:** judge, understand, be, give, find · **To what, where:** good advice, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Wise and clever, able to judge well and understand what is best.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sagacious:m1:1
# text = Wise and clever, able to judge well and understand what is best.
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **understand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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 sagacious owl gave good advice.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sagacious:x1:1
# text = The sagacious owl gave good advice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **give** | past | the sagacious owl | good advice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Athene was the most sagacious of her father's counsellors.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sagacious:x2:1
# text = Athene was the most sagacious of her father's counsellors.
1	Athene	Athene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Athene |  |  |  |  | of Athene's father's counsellors; sagacious *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The sagacious dog found its way home.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sagacious:x3:1
# text = The sagacious dog found its way home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the sagacious dog | dog's way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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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