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pitiful

Who acts: Pitiful, you, Pinocchio, lost kitten, effort, he · What happens: mean, make, feel, tell, lose, give · To what, where: you, pitiful tale, pitiful mew, one goal · Speech: someone speaks here

«pitiful» 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: pitiful in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Pitiful means making you feel sorry for someone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 making	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 making	xcomp
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 someone	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sorry	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Pitiful						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make not said to happen	gerund	Pitiful not said here	you					tree rules
3	feel not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Meaning 2

Pitiful can also mean very poor or useless: a pitiful effort.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 poor	advmod
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 useless	cc
8	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poor	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 effort	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 effort	det
11	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 effort	amod
12	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	Pitiful						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Example 1

Pinocchio told his pitiful tale.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tale	nmod:poss
4	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Pinocchio	Pinocchio's pitiful tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	tell		Pinocchio						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 2

The lost kitten gave a pitiful mew.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitten	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kitten	amod
3	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mew	det
6	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mew	amod
7	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the lost kitten	a pitiful mew					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mew=Theme

Example 3

His effort was pitiful; he scored only one goal.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 effort	nmod:poss
2	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pitiful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pitiful	cop
4	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 scored	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scored	nsubj
7	scored	score	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pitiful	parataxis
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 goal	nummod
10	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scored	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pitiful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His effort					pitiful property	tree rules
2	score	past	he	one goal					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme

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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