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title: unaccountable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unaccountable» in the school dictionary: Unaccountable means strange and impossible to explain. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unaccountable

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**Who acts:** Unaccountable, It, unaccountable disappearance, dog, Some · **What happens:** mean, explain, be, worry, disappear, have · **To what, where:** unaccountable mistake, us, unaccountable ideas

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unaccountable means strange and impossible to explain.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unaccountable:m1:1
# text = Unaccountable means strange and impossible to explain.
1	Unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Unaccountable |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Unaccountable *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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It was an unaccountable mistake.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unaccountable:x1:1
# text = It was an unaccountable mistake.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is a** | past | It | a unaccountable mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The dog's unaccountable disappearance worried us.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unaccountable:x2:1
# text = The dog's unaccountable disappearance worried us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | past | the dog's unaccountable disappearance | us |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 2 | **disappear** |  | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Some of the old myths have unaccountable ideas.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unaccountable:x3:1
# text = Some of the old myths have unaccountable ideas.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Some | unaccountable ideas |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |

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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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