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title: faultless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «faultless» in the school dictionary: Faultless means with no mistakes or flaws at all; perfect. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# faultless

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**Who acts:** Faultless, spelling, Her, princess, He, palace walls · **What happens:** mean, be, spell, have, give · **To what, where:** faultless manners, faultless answer, sum

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Faultless means with no mistakes or flaws at all; perfect.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faultless:m1:1
# text = Faultless means with no mistakes or flaws at all; perfect.
1	Faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flaws	flaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	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 | Faultless |  |  |  |  | with no mistakes at all or flaws | 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Her spelling was faultless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faultless:x1:1
# text = Her spelling was faultless.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her spelling |  |  |  |  | faultless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spell** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The princess had faultless manners.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faultless:x2:1
# text = The princess had faultless manners.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the princess | faultless manners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He gave a faultless answer to every sum.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faultless:x3:1
# text = He gave a faultless answer to every sum.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | He | a faultless answer | every sum |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to sum=Recipient |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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The palace walls were faultless, with not one crack.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faultless:x4:1
# text = The palace walls were faultless, with not one crack.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the palace walls |  |  |  |  | faultless *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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