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title: indignity — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «indignity» in the school dictionary: Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# indignity

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**Who acts:** Treatment, person, It, prince, sack · **What happens:** make, feel, shame, lower, be, laugh · **To what, where:** person, front, indignity, prince, terrible indignity

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:indignity:m1:1
# text = Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others.
1	Treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	shamed	shame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Treatment | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **shame** | participle | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lower** | participle | a person *not said here* |  |  | front of others |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination |

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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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It was an indignity to be laughed at in front of everyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:indignity:x1:1
# text = It was an indignity to be laughed at in front of everyone.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	indignity	indignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a indignity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in front of everyone | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: in front=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The prince wanted to save himself from that indignity.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:indignity:x2:1
# text = The prince wanted to save himself from that indignity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	indignity	indignity	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 | **want** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | prince |  | that indignity |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from indignity=Source |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Being carried off like a sack was a terrible indignity.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:indignity:x3:1
# text = Being carried off like a sack was a terrible indignity.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	indignity	indignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a sack | a terrible indignity |  |  |  |  | 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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