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title: desolate — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «desolate» in the school dictionary: Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# desolate

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**Who acts:** Desolate, nothing, desolate house, moor, friends, she · **What happens:** mean, feel, be, desolate, stand, leave · **To what, where:** end

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:desolate:m1:1
# text = Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life.
1	Desolate	desolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Desolate |  |  |  |  | with no people or life; empty *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:desolate:m2:1
# text = Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good.
1	Desolate	Desolate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Desolate |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Desolate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The desolate house stood at the end of the lane.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:desolate:x1:1
# text = The desolate house stood at the end of the lane.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the desolate house |  |  |  | at the end of the lane |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The moor was cold and desolate.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:desolate:x2:1
# text = The moor was cold and desolate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the moor |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | the moor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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After her friends left, she felt desolate.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:desolate:x3:1
# text = After her friends left, she felt desolate.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | her friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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