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title: sacrilege — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sacrilege» in the school dictionary: Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god, a temple or a church. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sacrilege

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**Who acts:** Stealing, Apollo · **What happens:** show, steal, be, see, come down, defend · **To what, where:** Great disrespect, something, gold, temple, sacrilege, shrine

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«sacrilege» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [sacrilege in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sacrilege.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god, a temple or a church.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilege:m1:1
# text = Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god, a temple or a church.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | participle |  | Great disrespect *not said here* | something |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to something=Recipient |

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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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Stealing the gold from the temple was sacrilege.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilege:x1:1
# text = Stealing the gold from the temple was sacrilege.
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	sacrilege	sacrilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | the gold |  | the temple |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from temple=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Stealing | sacrilege |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Apollo saw the sacrilege and came down to defend his shrine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilege:x2:1
# text = Apollo saw the sacrilege and came down to defend his shrine.
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sacrilege	sacrilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Apollo | the sacrilege |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sacrilege=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come down** | past | Apollo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | Apollo *not said here* | Apollo's shrine |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Beneficiary |

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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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