Who acts: I, They, it, sister, dog, undeserved reputation · What happens: not deserve, not earn, undeserv, not be, win, be · To what, where: detention, undeserved victory, He, work, undeserved reputation, bad mark
«undeserved» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: undeserved in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Not deserved; not earned or fair, whether good or bad: an undeserved punishment, an undeserved prize.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
2 deserved
advmod
2
deserved
deserve
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
3
;
;
PUNCT
_
5 earned
punct
4
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
5 earned
advmod
5
earned
earn
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 deserved
conj
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
7 fair
cc
7
fair
fair
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 earned
conj
8
,
,
PUNCT
_
16 punishment
punct
9
whether
whether
SCONJ
_
16 punishment
mark
10
good
good
ADJ
Degree=Pos
16 punishment
amod
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 bad
cc
12
bad
bad
ADJ
Degree=Pos
10 good
conj
13
:
:
PUNCT
_
16 punishment
punct
14
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
16 punishment
det
15
undeserved
undeserv
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
16 punishment
amod
16
punishment
punishment
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 earned
parataxis
17
,
,
PUNCT
_
20 prize
punct
18
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
20 prize
det
19
undeserved
undeserv
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
20 prize
amod
20
prize
prize
NOUN
Number=Sing
16 punishment
conj
21
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 deserved
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notdeserve
participle
tree rules
2
notearn
participle
vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3
undeserv
participle
tree rules
4
undeserv
participle
tree rules
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
The detention was undeserved – I wasn't even there.
vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2
undeserv
past · passive
her bad mark
tree rules
3
mark
her = she
nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
Example 6
An undeserved telling-off can feel very unfair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
An
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
5 off
det
2
undeserved
undeserv
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 off
amod
3
telling
telling
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 off
compound
4
-
-
PUNCT
_
5 off
punct
5
off
off
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 feel
nsubj
6
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
7 feel
aux
7
feel
feel
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
8
very
very
ADV
_
9 unfair
advmod
9
unfair
unfair
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 feel
xcomp
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
7 feel
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
undeserv
participle
tree rules
2
feel
can
a undeserved telling off
unfair property
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
Example 7
If, on the other hand, undeserved ill-luck followed him through life, and all his efforts resulted in failure, it was ascribed to her adverse influence.
The tree, 26 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through life=Trajectory
3
result
past
luck's efforts
failure
vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in failure=Location
4
ascribe
past · passive
failure
to her adverse influence
tree rules
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.