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title: luckless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «luckless» in the school dictionary: Unlucky; having bad fortune, often through no fault of one's own. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# luckless

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**Who acts:** luckless fox, luckless traveller, Poor luckless boy · **What happens:** have, lose, leave, trip · **To what, where:** bad fortune, fault, supper, money, stone

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unlucky; having bad fortune, often through no fault of one's own.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:luckless:m1:1
# text = Unlucky; having bad fortune, often through no fault of one's own.
1	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | bad fortune |  | no fault of one's own |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |

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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 luckless fox lost his supper to the crow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:luckless:x1:1
# text = The luckless fox lost his supper to the crow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the luckless fox | fox's supper |  |  |  | to the crow | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Eventuality |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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A luckless traveller had no money left.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:luckless:x2:1
# text = A luckless traveller had no money left.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a luckless traveller | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | no money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Poor luckless boy, he trips on every stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:luckless:x3:1
# text = Poor luckless boy, he trips on every stone.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trips	trip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** | present | Poor luckless boy |  |  | every stone |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory |

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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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