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title: unbearable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unbearable» in the school dictionary: Unbearable means too painful, hot, loud or annoying to put up with. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unbearable

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**Who acts:** Unbearable, noise, heat, Waiting · **What happens:** mean, put up, be, wait, feel

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unbearable means too painful, hot, loud or annoying to put up with.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unbearable:m1:1
# text = Unbearable means too painful, hot, loud or annoying to put up with.
1	Unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Unbearable |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put up** | to-infinitive | Unbearable *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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The noise from the drums was unbearable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unbearable:x1:1
# text = The noise from the drums was unbearable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the noise from the drums |  |  |  |  | unbearable *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The heat in the desert was unbearable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unbearable:x2:1
# text = The heat in the desert was unbearable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the heat in the desert |  |  |  |  | unbearable *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Waiting for the bell felt unbearable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unbearable:x3:1
# text = Waiting for the bell felt unbearable.
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the bell | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Waiting |  |  |  |  | unbearable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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