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title: motherless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «motherless» in the school dictionary: Motherless means having no living mother. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# motherless

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**Who acts:** Motherless, Hermes, Many fairy tales · **What happens:** mean, have, give, care, treat, begin · **To what, where:** living mother, motherless child, care, little motherless girl

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Motherless means having no living mother.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:motherless:m1:1
# text = Motherless means having no living mother.
1	Motherless	motherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Motherless |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | Motherless *not said here* | no living mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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 motherless child was given to the care of Hermes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:motherless:x1:1
# text = The motherless child was given to the care of Hermes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	motherless	motherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the motherless child | the care of Hermes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 2 | **care** |  | Hermes |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The little motherless girl was often treated unkindly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:motherless:x2:1
# text = The little motherless girl was often treated unkindly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	motherless	motherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past · passive |  | the little motherless girl |  |  |  | often, unkindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Many fairy tales begin with a motherless prince.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:motherless:x3:1
# text = Many fairy tales begin with a motherless prince.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	motherless	motherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **begin** | present | Many fairy tales |  |  |  |  | with a motherless prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with prince=Subeventuality |

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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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