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title: unwarrantable — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unwarrantable» in the school dictionary: Not allowed or not right; cannot be justified. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unwarrantable

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**Who acts:** It, goats, Taking · **What happens:** not allow, not be, be, think, take · **To what, where:** unwarrantable insult, invasion, whole cake

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not allowed or not right; cannot be justified.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unwarrantable:m1:1
# text = Not allowed or not right; cannot be justified.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	justified	justified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | justified *property* | tree rules |

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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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It was an unwarrantable insult.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unwarrantable:x1:1
# text = It was an unwarrantable insult.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unwarrantable	unwarrantable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a unwarrantable insult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The goats thought the invasion unwarrantable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unwarrantable:x2:1
# text = The goats thought the invasion unwarrantable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	unwarrantable	unwarrantable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the goats | the invasion |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot invasion=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Taking the whole cake was unwarrantable.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unwarrantable:x3:1
# text = Taking the whole cake was unwarrantable.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unwarrantable	unwarrantable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | the whole cake |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Taking |  |  |  |  | unwarrantable *property* | tree rules |

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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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