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title: sacrilegious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sacrilegious» in the school dictionary: Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a god or holy place. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sacrilegious

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**Who acts:** king, It, Their · **What happens:** show, pay, be, steal, stop, plan · **To what, where:** disrespect, church, sacrilegious plans

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a god or holy place.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilegious:m1:1
# text = Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a god or holy place.
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund |  | disrespect |  |  |  | for something | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disrespect=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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The king paid for his sacrilegious deeds.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilegious:x1:1
# text = The king paid for his sacrilegious deeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sacrilegious	sacrilegious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | for king's sacrilegious deeds | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for deed=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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It was sacrilegious to steal from the church.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilegious:x2:1
# text = It was sacrilegious to steal from the church.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|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	sacrilegious	sacrilegious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | sacrilegious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the church |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Their sacrilegious plans were stopped.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrilegious:x3:1
# text = Their sacrilegious plans were stopped.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sacrilegious	sacrilegious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past · passive |  | Their sacrilegious plans |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **plan** |  | Their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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