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title: watchfulness — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «watchfulness» in the school dictionary: Watchfulness is careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad happens without your noticing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# watchfulness

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**Who acts:** Watchfulness, nothing, your, Wolf, life · **What happens:** look out, keep, happen, notice, not get, eat · **To what, where:** alert, enough, boat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Watchfulness is careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad happens without your noticing.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:watchfulness:m1:1
# text = Watchfulness is careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad happens without your noticing.
1	Watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	alert	alert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | present · progressive | Watchfulness |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | Watchfulness *not said here* | alert |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alert=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:watchfulness:x1:1
# text = The Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | could | the Wolf | enough |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because the watchfulness of the Shepherds | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:watchfulness:x2:1
# text = Without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift away** | would · perfect · passive |  | our boat |  |  |  | without my watchfulness; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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A life of watchfulness is tiring.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:watchfulness:x3:1
# text = A life of watchfulness is tiring.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a life of watchfulness |  |  |  |  | tiring *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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