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title: bottomless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bottomless» in the school dictionary: Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bottomless

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**Who acts:** Bottomless, you, stomach, hunger, Her · **What happens:** mean, have, reach, seem, be, hunger · **To what, where:** end, bottomless pit

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«bottomless» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: [bottomless in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bottomless.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bottomless:m1:1
# text = Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach.
1	Bottomless	bottomless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Bottomless |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Bottomless | no end or floor |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | can | you | no end or floor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The well seemed bottomless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bottomless:x1:1
# text = The well seemed bottomless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bottomless, well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bottomless:x2:1
# text = His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pit	pit	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 | **seem** | past | His stomach | a bottomless pit |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pit=Attribute |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Into the bottomless pit with you!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bottomless:x3:1
# text = Into the bottomless pit with you!
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 4 {#x4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her hunger for gold was bottomless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bottomless:x4:1
# text = Her hunger for gold was bottomless.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her hunger for gold |  |  |  |  | bottomless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunger** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  | for gold | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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