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title: blight — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «blight» in the school dictionary: A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# blight

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**Who acts:** damage, plants, blight, drought, Bad weather · **What happens:** spoil, not grow, ruin, destroy, leave, be · **To what, where:** plants, place, potato crop, fields, blight, village

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blight:m1:1
# text = A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | present | damage | plants or crops |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | can | plants *= plant* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blight:m2:1
# text = Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ruins	ruin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ruin** | present |  | a place or a life |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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A blight destroyed the potato crop.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blight:x1:1
# text = A blight destroyed the potato crop.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blight	blight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crop	crop	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 | **destroy** | past | a blight | the potato crop |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The drought and blight left the fields brown.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blight:x2:1
# text = The drought and blight left the fields brown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	blight	blight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the drought and blight | the fields |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Bad weather can be a blight on a village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blight:x3:1
# text = Bad weather can be a blight on a village.
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blight	blight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | Bad weather | a blight |  | a village |  |  | 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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