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title: slender — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «slender» in the school dictionary: Thin, graceful and narrow, not thick or heavy. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# slender

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**Who acts:** giraffe, She, slender chance, slender girl · **What happens:** have, bend, win, run · **To what, where:** long slender legs, slender reed, wind, slender chance

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«slender» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 4 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: [slender in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/slender.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thin, graceful and narrow, not thick or heavy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:m1:1
# text = Thin, graceful and narrow, not thick or heavy.
1	Thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Small or slight, as in a slender chance.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:m2:1
# text = Small or slight, as in a slender chance.
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The giraffe has long slender legs.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:x1:1
# text = The giraffe has long slender legs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the giraffe | long slender legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A slender reed bent in the wind.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:x2:1
# text = A slender reed bent in the wind.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle |  | a slender reed *not said here* |  | the wind |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wind=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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She had a slender chance of winning.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:x3:1
# text = She had a slender chance of winning.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | She | a slender chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | a slender chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 4 {#x4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The slender girl ran fast.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:slender:x4:1
# text = The slender girl ran fast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the slender girl |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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