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title: tenderness — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tenderness» in the school dictionary: Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tenderness

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**Who acts:** Tenderness, She, arm, He · **What happens:** be, mean, touch, feel, have, speak · **To what, where:** gentle love, soreness, great tenderness, tenderness, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«tenderness» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [tenderness in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tenderness.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tenderness:m1:1
# text = Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling.
1	Tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	softness	softness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tenderness | gentle love and kindness and softness of feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tenderness:m2:1
# text = Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched.
1	Tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	soreness	soreness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can | Tenderness | soreness of the body |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soreness=Topic |
| 2 | **touch** | participle | Tenderness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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She felt great tenderness for her brothers.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tenderness:x1:1
# text = She felt great tenderness for her brothers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | She | great tenderness |  |  |  | for her brothers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tenderness=Location for brother=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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My arm has a tenderness after the fall.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tenderness:x2:1
# text = My arm has a tenderness after the fall.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | My arm | a tenderness |  |  | after the fall |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenderness=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He spoke to her with tenderness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tenderness:x3:1
# text = He spoke to her with tenderness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | He |  | her *= she* |  |  | with tenderness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |

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