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# dutiful

«dutiful» in Mova's school dictionary: **careful to do what you should, obeying parents and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dutifully, dutifulness)

### meaning for a pupil

Dutiful means careful to do what you should, obeying parents and keeping promises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dutiful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a good child who obeys a parent; in lessons it praises careful, obedient behaviour

### examples

- The dutiful son fetched water for his mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dutiful/#x1)
- She was a dutiful pupil who always did her homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dutiful/#x2)
- Be a dutiful helper and tidy up after the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dutiful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dutiful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dutiful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.