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title: assay — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «assay» in the Judaism dictionary: A test of a metal or ore to find out how pure it is, or to try something out. The word is old and not common. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# assay

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**Who acts:** test, word · **What happens:** find out, be, try out, test, not be · **To what, where:** something, metal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«assay» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [assay in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/assay.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A test of a metal or ore to find out how pure it is, or to try something out. The word is old and not common.

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*Sentence 1:* A test of a metal or ore to find out how pure it is, or to try something out.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:assay:m1:1
# text = A test of a metal or ore to find out how pure it is, or to try something out.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | to-infinitive | a test of a metal or ore |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | test |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try out** | to-infinitive | a test of a metal or ore *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **test** |  |  | a metal or ore |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* The word is old and not common.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:assay:m1:2
# text = The word is old and not common.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the word |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | the word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the Judaism 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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