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title: untoward — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «untoward» in the school dictionary: Unexpected and unlucky; not wanted and causing trouble. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# untoward

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**Who acts:** Nothing, untoward storm · **What happens:** not want, cause, happen, delay, grieve · **To what, where:** trouble, journey, ship, hero, untoward event

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Unexpected and unlucky; not wanted and causing trouble.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:untoward:m1:1
# text = Unexpected and unlucky; not wanted and causing trouble.
1	Unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **cause** | gerund |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient |

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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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Nothing untoward happened on the journey.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:untoward:x1:1
# text = Nothing untoward happened on the journey.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	untoward	untoward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | Nothing |  |  | the journey |  | untoward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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An untoward storm delayed the ship.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:untoward:x2:1
# text = An untoward storm delayed the ship.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	untoward	untoward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	delayed	delay	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	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delay** | past | a untoward storm | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent ship=Source |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The hero grieved at the untoward event.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:untoward:x3:1
# text = The hero grieved at the untoward event.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	untoward	untoward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | participle |  | the hero *not said here* |  | the untoward event |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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