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title: childless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «childless» in the school dictionary: Childless means having no children. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# childless

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**Who acts:** Childless, Many childless couples, old people, people · **What happens:** mean, have, wish, adopt, be · **To what, where:** children, childless queen, child

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Childless means having no children.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childless:m1:1
# text = Childless means having no children.
1	Childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Childless |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | Childless *not said here* | no children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 childless queen wished for a baby.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childless:x1:1
# text = The childless queen wished for a baby.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | participle |  | the childless queen *not said here* |  |  |  | for a baby | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for baby=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Many childless couples adopt a child.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childless:x2:1
# text = Many childless couples adopt a child.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	adopt	adopt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **adopt** | present | Many childless couples | a child |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The old people were sad because they were childless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:childless:x3:1
# text = The old people were sad because they were childless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old people |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | childless *property* | 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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