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title: pernicious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «pernicious» in the school dictionary: Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# pernicious

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**Who acts:** Romans · **What happens:** cause, worshipp, ward off · **To what, where:** damage, Nemesis, pernicious consequences

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«pernicious» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [pernicious in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pernicious.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pernicious:m1:1
# text = Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | gerund |  | damage and ruin or trouble |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=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 Romans worshipped Nemesis to ward off the pernicious consequences of envy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:pernicious:x1:1
# text = The Romans worshipped Nemesis to ward off the pernicious consequences of envy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Nemesis	Nemesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ward	ward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	pernicious	pernicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worshipp** | past | the Romans | Nemesis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ward off** | to-infinitive | the Romans *not said here* | the pernicious consequences of envy |  |  |  |  | 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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