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title: postulate — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «postulate» in the Judaism dictionary: An idea or statement that is taken as true as the starting point for an argument. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# postulate

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**What happens:** take · **To what, where:** statement

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«postulate» 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: [postulate in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/postulate.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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An idea or statement that is taken as true as the starting point for an argument.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:postulate:m1:1
# text = An idea or statement that is taken as true as the starting point for an argument.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · passive |  | statement |  |  |  | as the starting point for a argument; true *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as point=Attribute |

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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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**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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