touchstone

Who acts: people, dark stone, stone, Something, goldsmith, touchstone · What happens: rub, test, be, use, judge, show · To what, where: that, other things, metal, touchstone, fairy tale · Speech: someone speaks here

«touchstone» 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: touchstone in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A dark stone that people once rubbed gold on to test whether it was real.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 test	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rubbed	obj
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	nsubj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 rubbed	advmod
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 test	advcl
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rubbed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 test	case
10	to	to	PART	_	11 test	mark
11	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 real	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 real	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 test	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rub	past	people	that	once property	tree rules
2	test	to-infinitive	a dark stone			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	stone		real property	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.

Meaning 2

Something you use as a standard to judge other things by.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 use	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 standard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 standard	det
6	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 judge	mark
8	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 judge	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	8 judge	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Something					as a standard	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	judge	to-infinitive	Something not said here	other things					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent thing=Value

Example 1

The goldsmith rubbed the metal on the touchstone to test it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goldsmith	det
2	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 metal	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 touchstone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 touchstone	det
8	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 test	mark
10	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rubbed	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 test	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rubbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	the goldsmith	the metal		the touchstone			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metal=Theme on touchstone=Destination
2	test	to-infinitive	the goldsmith not said here	metal					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Example 2

In the fairy tale the touchstone showed that the coins were fake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tale	compound
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 touchstone	det
6	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 fake	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coins	det
10	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fake	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fake	cop
12	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 showed	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the touchstone			the fairy tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the coins					fake property	tree rules

Example 3

Her kind deeds were a touchstone for how we should behave.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 deeds	nmod:poss
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deeds	compound
3	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touchstone	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touchstone	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 touchstone	det
6	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 behave	mark
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 behave	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 behave	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 behave	aux
11	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 touchstone	acl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touchstone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Her kind deeds	a touchstone					tree rules
2	behave	should	we						vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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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