crucible

Who acts: crucible, strong pot, we · What happens: be, stand, use, melt, melt away, make · To what, where: strong pot, great heat, metal, metals, crucible, these

«crucible» 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: crucible in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A crucible is a strong pot that can stand great heat, used for melting metal or other things.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crucible	det
2	crucible	crucible	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pot	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stand	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pot	acl:relcl
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heat	amod
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pot	parataxis
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 melting	mark
15	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 used	advcl
16	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 melting	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 things	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 metal	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a crucible	a strong pot	tree rules
2	stand	can	a strong pot	great heat	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus
3	use	participle			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	melt	gerund		metal or other things	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient metal=Result

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 metals were melted in the crucible.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 metals	det
2	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	aux:pass
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 crucible	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crucible	det
7	crucible	crucible	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past · passive		the metals		the crucible			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Example 2

It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 melt	mark
5	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 these	det:predet
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 melt	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 melt	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 crucible	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crucible	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 making	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 gold	punct
13	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 crucible	amod
14	crucible	crucible	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melt	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			easy property	tree rules
2	melt away	to-infinitive	these	the making crucible	away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient this=Result
3	make	gerund				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Example 3

In science we heated salt in a crucible.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 science	case
2	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heated	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heated	nsubj
4	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heated	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 crucible	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crucible	det
8	crucible	crucible	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heated	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	past	we	salt				in a crucible; in science	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent salt=Patient in science=Instrument

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