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title: merciless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «merciless» in the school dictionary: Having no pity; cruel and not willing to spare anyone. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# merciless

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**Who acts:** giant, She, sun · **What happens:** have, spare, be, eat · **To what, where:** pity, anyone, bird, desert

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Having no pity; cruel and not willing to spare anyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:merciless:m1:1
# text = Having no pity; cruel and not willing to spare anyone.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | no pity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **spare** | to-infinitive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset |

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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 giant was merciless and ate every bird.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:merciless:x1:1
# text = The giant was merciless and ate every bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	merciless	merciless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  | merciless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past | the giant *not said here* | every bird |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She was merciless to her stepdaughter.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:merciless:x2:1
# text = She was merciless to her stepdaughter.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	merciless	merciless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | to her stepdaughter; merciless *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The sun was merciless in the desert.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:merciless:x3:1
# text = The sun was merciless in the desert.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	merciless	merciless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  | the desert |  | merciless *property* | tree rules |

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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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