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title: wretchedness — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «wretchedness» in the school dictionary: Wretchedness is great misery, sadness or unhappiness. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# wretchedness

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**Who acts:** Wretchedness, She, He · **What happens:** be, feel, lose, live, make · **To what, where:** great misery, wretchedness, everyone

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«wretchedness» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: [wretchedness in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wretchedness.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Wretchedness is great misery, sadness or unhappiness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:wretchedness:m1:1
# text = Wretchedness is great misery, sadness or unhappiness.
1	Wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wretchedness | great misery and sadness or unhappiness |  |  |  |  | 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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She felt the wretchedness of being lost.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:wretchedness:x1:1
# text = She felt the wretchedness of being lost.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | She | the wretchedness |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wretchedness=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund · passive |  | the wretchedness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He lived in wretchedness for years.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:wretchedness:x2:1
# text = He lived in wretchedness for years.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | He |  |  | wretchedness | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wretchedness=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The wretchedness of the poor family made everyone sad.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:wretchedness:x3:1
# text = The wretchedness of the poor family made everyone sad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the wretchedness of the poor family | everyone |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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Nothing for maths.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:wretchedness:x4:1
# text = Nothing for maths.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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