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title: blighted — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «blighted» in the school dictionary: Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# blighted

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**Who acts:** blighted apples, wet summer, flood, Their · **What happens:** spoil, damage, ruin, blight, fall, leave · **To what, where:** disease, fields, hopes

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blighted:m1:1
# text = Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck.
1	Spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ruin** | participle |  | disease and bad weather or bad luck |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |

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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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The blighted apples fell to the ground.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blighted:x1:1
# text = The blighted apples fell to the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the blighted apples |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The wet summer left the fields blighted.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blighted:x2:1
# text = The wet summer left the fields blighted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the wet summer | the fields |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 2 | **blight** | participle |  | the fields *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Their hopes were blighted by the flood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:blighted:x3:1
# text = Their hopes were blighted by the flood.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blight** | past · passive | the flood | Their hopes |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hope** |  | Their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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