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title: unfathomable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unfathomable» in the school dictionary: Too deep or too hard to measure or understand. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unfathomable

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**Who acts:** sea, thoughts, Her, cave · **What happens:** measure, understand, be, think, seem · **To what, where:** us

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Too deep or too hard to measure or understand.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unfathomable:m1:1
# text = Too deep or too hard to measure or understand.
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 sea was unfathomable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unfathomable:x1:1
# text = The sea was unfathomable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unfathomable	unfathomable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Her thoughts were unfathomable to us.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unfathomable:x2:1
# text = Her thoughts were unfathomable to us.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unfathomable	unfathomable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her thoughts |  | us |  |  | unfathomable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The cave seemed unfathomable in the dark.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unfathomable:x3:1
# text = The cave seemed unfathomable in the dark.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unfathomable	unfathomable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **seem** | past | the cave |  |  |  |  | in the dark; unfathomable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in dark=Attribute |

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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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