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title: spick — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «spick» in the school dictionary: «Spick and span» means very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# spick

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**Who acts:** Spick, Everything, Geppetto · **What happens:** mean, be, stand · **To what, where:** new clothes

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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«Spick and span» means very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:spick:m1:1
# text = «Spick and span» means very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Spick	Spick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	brand	brand	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Spick and span |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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Everything in the house was spick and span.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:spick:x1:1
# text = Everything in the house was spick and span.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	spick	spick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | spick *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Geppetto stood there, spick and span in his new clothes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:spick:x2:1
# text = Geppetto stood there, spick and span in his new clothes.
1	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	spick	spick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Geppetto |  |  | Geppetto's new clothes; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location |

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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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