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title: unpunished — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unpunished» in the school dictionary: Not given a punishment for doing wrong. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unpunished

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**Who acts:** punishment, thief, Nobody, bully · **What happens:** not give, do, not go, cheat, go · **To what, where:** punishment

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not given a punishment for doing wrong.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unpunished:m1:1
# text = Not given a punishment for doing wrong.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | participle |  | a punishment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | a punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «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 thief must not go unpunished.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unpunished:x1:1
# text = The thief must not go unpunished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unpunished	unpunished	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 | **not** **go** | must | the thief |  |  |  |  | unpunished *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Nobody can cheat and go unpunished.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unpunished:x2:1
# text = Nobody can cheat and go unpunished.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cheat	cheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	unpunished	unpunished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | can | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unpunished *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The bully went unpunished that day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unpunished:x3:1
# text = The bully went unpunished that day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unpunished	unpunished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the bully |  |  |  | day | unpunished *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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