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title: ingratitude — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ingratitude» in the school dictionary: Not being thankful for what someone has done for you. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ingratitude

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**Who acts:** someone, Ingratitude, He, friend, goatherd · **What happens:** not be, do, bring, punish, show, forget · **To what, where:** own punishment, ingratitude, help

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not being thankful for what someone has done for you.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ingratitude:m1:1
# text = Not being thankful for what someone has done for you.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | someone |  |  |  |  | for you | 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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Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ingratitude:x1:1
# text = Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.
1	Ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Ingratitude | Ingratitude's own punishment |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 2 | **punish** |  | Ingratitude |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He showed ingratitude when he forgot his friend's help.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ingratitude:x2:1
# text = He showed ingratitude when he forgot his friend's help.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | He | ingratitude |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ingratitude=Recipient |
| 2 | **forget** | past | he | his friend's help |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** |  | his friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The goatherd was angry at their ingratitude.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ingratitude:x3:1
# text = The goatherd was angry at their ingratitude.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ingratitude	ingratitude	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 goatherd |  |  | their ingratitude |  | angry *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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