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title: disastrous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «disastrous» in the school dictionary: Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or a fire does. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# disastrous

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**Who acts:** causing, flood, party, cake, disastrous storm · **What happens:** cause, do, be, fall, blow down · **To what, where:** great harm, disastrous mess, trees

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or a fire does.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disastrous:m1:1
# text = Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or a fire does.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | gerund |  | great harm and loss or ruin |  |  |  | as a flood or a fire | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | causing |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The flood was disastrous for the village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disastrous:x1:1
# text = The flood was disastrous for the village.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	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 | **is** | past | the flood |  |  |  |  | for the village; disastrous *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The party was a disastrous mess after the cake fell.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disastrous:x2:1
# text = The party was a disastrous mess after the cake fell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the party | a disastrous mess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the cake |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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A disastrous storm blew down all the trees.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disastrous:x3:1
# text = A disastrous storm blew down all the trees.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow down** | past | a disastrous storm | all trees |  |  |  | down *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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