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title: serene — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «serene» in the school dictionary: Serene means calm and peaceful, with no worry or fear showing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# serene

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**Who acts:** Serene, worry, serene face, lake · **What happens:** mean, show, be, gather · **To what, where:** fear, moon, frown, serene brow

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Serene means calm and peaceful, with no worry or fear showing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:serene:m1:1
# text = Serene means calm and peaceful, with no worry or fear showing.
1	Serene	Serene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	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 | Serene |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | no worry or fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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Her serene face showed no fear.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:serene:x1:1
# text = Her serene face showed no fear.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	fear	fear	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 | **show** | past | Her serene face | no fear |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The lake was serene under the moon.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:serene:x2:1
# text = The lake was serene under the moon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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A frown gathered on his usually serene brow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:serene:x3:1
# text = A frown gathered on his usually serene brow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **gather** | participle |  | a frown *not said here* |  | his serene brow |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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