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# marionette

«marionette» in Mova's school dictionary: **a puppet, a doll moved by strings held from above** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (marionette, marionettes)

### meaning for a pupil

A marionette is a puppet, a doll moved by strings held from above. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marionette/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a puppet who is a character in a tale; in stories it often gets into mischief

### examples

- The marionette had always hated chick-peas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marionette/#x1)
- The first pranks of the marionette were fun to read about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marionette/#x2)
- The marionette danced on its strings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marionette/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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