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title: unmercifully — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unmercifully» in the school dictionary: Unmercifully means without pity, very harshly or very hard, with no kindness shown. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unmercifully

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**Who acts:** giant, sun, wicked stepmother · **What happens:** mean, show, strike, beat down, treat · **To what, where:** kindness, door, girl

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unmercifully means without pity, very harshly or very hard, with no kindness shown.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unmercifully:m1:1
# text = Unmercifully means without pity, very harshly or very hard, with no kindness shown.
1	Unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	2	parataxis	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | without pity; unmercifully *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | participle |  | no kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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The giant struck the door unmercifully.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unmercifully:x1:1
# text = The giant struck the door unmercifully.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the giant | the door |  |  |  | unmercifully *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The sun beat down unmercifully all day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unmercifully:x2:1
# text = The sun beat down unmercifully all day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat down** | present | the sun |  |  |  | day | unmercifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The wicked stepmother treated the girl unmercifully.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unmercifully:x3:1
# text = The wicked stepmother treated the girl unmercifully.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past | the wicked stepmother |  | the girl |  |  | unmercifully *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |

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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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