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title: woeful — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «woeful» in the school dictionary: Full of sorrow or sadness. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# woeful

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**Who acts:** woeful punishment, Her, dog, team · **What happens:** be, bear, punish, give, play · **To what, where:** woeful howl, woeful football

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«woeful» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [woeful in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/woeful.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Full of sorrow or sadness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woeful:m1:1
# text = Full of sorrow or sadness.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Very bad or poor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woeful:m2:1
# text = Very bad or poor.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Her woeful punishment was hard to bear.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woeful:x1:1
# text = Her woeful punishment was hard to bear.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her woeful punishment |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Her woeful punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **punish** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The dog gave a woeful howl.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woeful:x2:1
# text = The dog gave a woeful howl.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the dog | a woeful howl |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The team played woeful football.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:woeful:x3:1
# text = The team played woeful football.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the team | woeful football |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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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