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title: lightless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lightless» in the school dictionary: With no light at all; completely dark. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

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# lightless

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**Who acts:** miners, ocean, underground home, Fish, lightless windows, house · **What happens:** work, be, have, show, seem · **To what, where:** lightless world, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«lightless» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 6 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: [lightless in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightless.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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With no light at all; completely dark.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:m1:1
# text = With no light at all; completely dark.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The miners worked in lightless tunnels.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x1:1
# text = The miners worked in lightless tunnels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	lightless	lightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | the miners |  |  |  |  | in lightless tunnels | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tunnel=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Deep in the ocean is a lightless world.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x2:1
# text = Deep in the ocean is a lightless world.
1	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lightless	lightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the ocean | a lightless world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The Mole's underground home was lightless at night.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x3:1
# text = The Mole's underground home was lightless at night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	lightless	lightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Mole's underground home |  |  |  | night | lightless *property* | tree rules |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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Fish in lightless caves often have no eyes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x4:1
# text = Fish in lightless caves often have no eyes.
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	lightless	lightless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Fish in lightless caves | no eyes |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

## Example 5 {#x5}

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The lightless windows showed the house was empty.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x5:1
# text = The lightless windows showed the house was empty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lightless	lightless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the lightless windows |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

## Example 6 {#x6}

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A black hole is so strong that it seems lightless.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lightless:x6:1
# text = A black hole is so strong that it seems lightless.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	lightless	lightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a black hole |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | it |  |  |  |  | lightless *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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