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title: tenacity — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tenacity» in the Judaism dictionary: Strong determination to keep going and not give up. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tenacity

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**Who acts:** Strong determination · **What happens:** keep, go, not give up

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Strong determination to keep going and not give up.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:tenacity:m1:1
# text = Strong determination to keep going and not give up.
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Strong determination |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Strong determination *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **give up** | infinitive | Strong determination *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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