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title: bleak — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bleak» in the school dictionary: Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bleak

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**Who acts:** bleak moor, Clouds, little girl · **What happens:** look, have, hide, feel · **To what, where:** trees, sun

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«bleak» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [bleak in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bleak.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bleak:m1:1
# text = Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun.
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hopeless, with little to look forward to.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bleak:m2:1
# text = Hopeless, with little to look forward to.
1	Hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The bleak moor had no trees.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bleak:x1:1
# text = The bleak moor had no trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bleak	bleak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the bleak moor | no trees |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Clouds hid the sun on a bleak winter day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bleak:x2:1
# text = Clouds hid the sun on a bleak winter day.
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	bleak	bleak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Clouds | the sun |  |  | day |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The little girl felt alone in the bleak streets.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bleak:x3:1
# text = The little girl felt alone in the bleak streets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bleak	bleak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the little girl |  |  |  |  | in the bleak streets; alone *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in street=Attribute |

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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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