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title: lawless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lawless» in the school dictionary: Lawless means not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless gang of robbers. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# lawless

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**Who acts:** Lawless, lawless robbers, land, lawless giant · **What happens:** mean, not obey, run, be, laugh · **To what, where:** law, hills, rules

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Lawless means not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless gang of robbers.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lawless:m1:1
# text = Lawless means not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless gang of robbers.
1	Lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Lawless |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **obey** *not said to happen* | gerund | Lawless *not said here* | the law |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |

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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 lawless robbers ran wild in the hills.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lawless:x1:1
# text = The lawless robbers ran wild in the hills.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the lawless robbers |  |  | the hills |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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In the old days the land was lawless and dangerous.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lawless:x2:1
# text = In the old days the land was lawless and dangerous.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The lawless giant laughed at the rules.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lawless:x3:1
# text = The lawless giant laughed at the rules.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **laugh** | past | the lawless giant |  |  | the rules |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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