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title: lust — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lust» in the school dictionary: A strong, greedy desire for something, such as money or power. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# lust

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**Who acts:** strong eagerness, lust, His, king, He · **What happens:** fight, make, lust, cause · **To what, where:** him, war

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«lust» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [lust in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lust.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A strong, greedy desire for something, such as money or power.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lust:m1:1
# text = A strong, greedy desire for something, such as money or power.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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A strong eagerness for fighting.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lust:m2:1
# text = A strong eagerness for fighting.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund | a strong eagerness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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His lust for gold made him greedy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lust:x1:1
# text = His lust for gold made him greedy.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | His lust for gold | him *= he* |  |  |  | greedy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 2 | **lust** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  | for gold | nom lust «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The king's lust for power caused war.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lust:x2:1
# text = The king's lust for power caused war.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the king's lust for power | war |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=Patient |
| 2 | **lust** |  | the king |  |  |  |  | for power | nom lust «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He fought with a lust for battle in his eyes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lust:x3:1
# text = He fought with a lust for battle in his eyes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | He |  |  |  |  | with a lust for battle in his eyes | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lust=Co-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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