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title: supercilious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «supercilious» in the school dictionary: Supercilious means proud and looking down on others, as if they were not worth noticing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# supercilious

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**Who acts:** Supercilious, others, tall Rocket, you · **What happens:** mean, look down, not be, notice, look, do

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Supercilious means proud and looking down on others, as if they were not worth noticing.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:supercilious:m1:1
# text = Supercilious means proud and looking down on others, as if they were not worth noticing.
1	Supercilious	Supercilious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
16	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Supercilious |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look down** | gerund | Supercilious *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on others; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on other=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund | Supercilious *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 tall Rocket looked supercilious.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:supercilious:x1:1
# text = The tall Rocket looked supercilious.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	supercilious	supercilious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the tall Rocket |  |  |  |  | supercilious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Don't be so supercilious with your friends.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:supercilious:x2:1
# text = Don't be so supercilious with your friends.
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	supercilious	supercilious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your friends; supercilious *property* | tree rules |

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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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