mettle
Who acts: person, knight, hard race, he · What happens: show, face, test, be, prove · To what, where: Courage, hard test, mettle · Speech: someone speaks here
«mettle» 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: mettle in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Courage and strength of character, shown when a person faces a hard test.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 strength | cc |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Courage | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 character | case |
| 5 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strength | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 faces | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faces | nsubj |
| 11 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 test | det |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 test | amod |
| 14 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faces | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | participle · passive | Courage and strength of character | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | face | present | a person | a hard test | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent test=Destination |
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 knight showed his mettle in the battle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mettle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mettle | mettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the knight | knight's mettle | in the battle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent mettle=Patient in battle=Topic |
Example 2
The hard race will test your mettle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 race | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 race | amod |
| 3 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 test | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 test | aux |
| 5 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mettle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mettle | mettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 test | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 test | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | future | the hard race | your mettle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=Theme |
Example 3
Bold and proud, he was eager to prove his mettle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 proud | cc |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bold | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eager | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eager | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eager | cop |
| 7 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bold | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 9 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eager | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mettle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mettle | mettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prove | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | he not said here | his mettle | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=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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