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title: shrewdly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «shrewdly» in the school dictionary: To act shrewdly is to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going on, especially when you want to gain something. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# shrewdly

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**Who acts:** you, landlord, Odysseus, She · **What happens:** act, be, judge, go on, want, gain · **To what, where:** something, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To act shrewdly is to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going on, especially when you want to gain something.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrewdly:m1:1
# text = To act shrewdly is to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going on, especially when you want to gain something.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | shrewdly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | quickly, think *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **judge** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **go on** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **gain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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 landlord said shrewdly what he thought.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrewdly:x1:1
# text = The landlord said shrewdly what he thought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the landlord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | landlord |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Odysseus shrewdly worked out who the stranger was.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrewdly:x2:1
# text = Odysseus shrewdly worked out who the stranger was.
1	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work out** | past | Odysseus |  |  |  |  | shrewdly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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She shrewdly guessed the answer.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrewdly:x3:1
# text = She shrewdly guessed the answer.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | She | the answer |  |  |  | shrewdly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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