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title: disconsolate — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «disconsolate» in the school dictionary: Very sad and hopeless, so that nothing seems able to cheer you up. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# disconsolate

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**Who acts:** nothing, boy, Fiachna, you · **What happens:** seem, cheer up, sit, lose, be, be up · **To what, where:** you, disconsolate, dog, tree, disconsolate widow

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very sad and hopeless, so that nothing seems able to cheer you up.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disconsolate:m1:1
# text = Very sad and hopeless, so that nothing seems able to cheer you up.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | able *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cheer up** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=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 boy sat disconsolate after he lost his dog.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disconsolate:x1:1
# text = The boy sat disconsolate after he lost his dog.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the boy | disconsolate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disconsolate=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past | boy | boy's dog |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Fiachna was disconsolate, high up in the tree.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disconsolate:x2:1
# text = Fiachna was disconsolate, high up in the tree.
1	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	disconsolate	disconsolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fiachna |  |  |  |  | disconsolate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be up** |  | Fiachna *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The disconsolate widow wept by the grave.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disconsolate:x3:1
# text = The disconsolate widow wept by the grave.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	disconsolate	disconsolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grave	grave	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 | **weep** | participle |  | the disconsolate widow *not said here* |  |  |  | by the grave | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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Why do you look so disconsolate?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:disconsolate:x4:1
# text = Why do you look so disconsolate?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	disconsolate	disconsolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **disconsolate** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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