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title: inhospitable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «inhospitable» in the school dictionary: Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# inhospitable

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**Who acts:** island, owner, strangers · **What happens:** be, shut, fear · **To what, where:** door, travellers, inhospitable shore

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:inhospitable:m1:1
# text = Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	welcoming	welcoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The island was cold and inhospitable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:inhospitable:x1:1
# text = The island was cold and inhospitable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The owner shut the door on the travellers, a rude and inhospitable act.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:inhospitable:x2:1
# text = The owner shut the door on the travellers, a rude and inhospitable act.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | the owner | the door |  | the travellers |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The strangers feared the inhospitable shore.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:inhospitable:x3:1
# text = The strangers feared the inhospitable shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shore	shore	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 | **fear** | past | the strangers | the inhospitable shore |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shore=Stimulus |

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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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