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title: sleepily — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sleepily» in the school dictionary: In a drowsy way; half awake and ready to fall asleep. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sleepily

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**Who acts:** She, baby, it, he · **What happens:** fall, rub, yawn, murmur, be, ask · **To what, where:** eyes, morning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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In a drowsy way; half awake and ready to fall asleep.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sleepily:m1:1
# text = In a drowsy way; half awake and ready to fall asleep.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	advmod	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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She rubbed her eyes and yawned sleepily.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sleepily:x1:1
# text = She rubbed her eyes and yawned sleepily.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	yawned	yawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | She | her eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **yawn** | past | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sleepily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The baby murmured sleepily.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sleepily:x2:1
# text = The baby murmured sleepily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the baby |  |  |  |  | sleepily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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"Is it morning yet?" he asked sleepily.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sleepily:x3:1
# text = "Is it morning yet?" he asked sleepily.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | morning |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | he |  |  |  |  | sleepily *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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