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title: tolerable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tolerable» in the school dictionary: Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tolerable

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**Who acts:** Tolerable, Russian merchant, soup, It, noise · **What happens:** mean, be, put up, make · **To what, where:** able, tolerable fortune, bit, tolerable day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:m1:1
# text = Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with.
1	Tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Tolerable |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Tolerable *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:m2:1
# text = Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice.
1	Tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Tolerable |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  | able |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Russian merchant made a tolerable fortune.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:x1:1
# text = The Russian merchant made a tolerable fortune.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Russian merchant | a tolerable fortune |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:x2:1
# text = The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the soup |  |  |  |  | tolerable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the soup *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:x3:1
# text = It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a tolerable day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 4 {#x4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The noise was tolerable for one evening.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tolerable:x4:1
# text = The noise was tolerable for one evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the noise |  |  |  | evening | tolerable *property* | tree rules |

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