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title: scandalous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «scandalous» in the school dictionary: Shocking and disgraceful, so that people think it is wrong or should not be allowed. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# scandalous

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**Who acts:** people, it, place, scandalous condition, bus · **What happens:** think, be, not allow, say, give · **To what, where:** scandalous condition, Degrees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Shocking and disgraceful, so that people think it is wrong or should not be allowed.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scandalous:m1:1
# text = Shocking and disgraceful, so that people think it is wrong or should not be allowed.
1	Shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	disgraceful	disgraceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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"What a scandalous condition this place is in," said he.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scandalous:x1:1
# text = "What a scandalous condition this place is in," said he.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this place | what scandalous condition *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | what scandalous condition |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Degrees were given with scandalous readiness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scandalous:x2:1
# text = Degrees were given with scandalous readiness.
1	Degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	readiness	readiness	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 | **give** | past · passive |  | Degrees |  |  |  | with scandalous readiness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is scandalous that the bus is always late.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:scandalous:x3:1
# text = It is scandalous that the bus is always late.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | scandalous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the bus |  |  |  |  | always, late *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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