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title: whimsical — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «whimsical» in the school dictionary: Whimsical means odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# whimsical

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**Who acts:** Whimsical, whimsical ideas, king, statue · **What happens:** mean, have, wear, look · **To what, where:** whimsical hat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Whimsical means odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whimsical:m1:1
# text = Whimsical means odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary.
1	Whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	playful	playful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Whimsical |  |  |  |  | odd *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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What whimsical ideas these lunatics have!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whimsical:x1:1
# text = What whimsical ideas these lunatics have!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	lunatics	lunatic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	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 | **have** | present | whimsical ideas and this lunatics |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The king wore a whimsical hat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whimsical:x2:1
# text = The king wore a whimsical hat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the king | a whimsical hat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The statue looked whimsical in the moonlight.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whimsical:x3:1
# text = The statue looked whimsical in the moonlight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the statue |  |  |  |  | in the moonlight; whimsical *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moonlight=Theme |

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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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