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title: unkempt — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unkempt» in the school dictionary: Unkempt means messy or untidy, not neatly cared for, especially of hair, beards or clothes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unkempt

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**Who acts:** Unkempt, hair, old man, garden · **What happens:** mean, not care, be, have, look · **To what, where:** unkempt beard

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unkempt means messy or untidy, not neatly cared for, especially of hair, beards or clothes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unkempt:m1:1
# text = Unkempt means messy or untidy, not neatly cared for, especially of hair, beards or clothes.
1	Unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	untidy	untidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Unkempt |  |  |  |  | messy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **care** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for hair and beards or clothes; neatly *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for hair=Theme |

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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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His hair was unkempt after the storm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unkempt:x1:1
# text = His hair was unkempt after the storm.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | His hair |  |  |  | after the storm | unkempt *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The old man had an unkempt beard down to his belt.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unkempt:x2:1
# text = The old man had an unkempt beard down to his belt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the old man | a unkempt beard |  |  |  | down *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The garden looked unkempt and overgrown.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unkempt:x3:1
# text = The garden looked unkempt and overgrown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the garden |  |  |  |  | unkempt *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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