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title: adamant — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «adamant» in the school dictionary: Adjective: refusing firmly to change your mind. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# adamant

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**Who acts:** your, She, king · **What happens:** refuse, change, mind, be, not go, make · **To what, where:** mind, adamant, chains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Adjective: refusing firmly to change your mind.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adamant:m1:1
# text = Adjective: refusing firmly to change your mind.
1	Adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive |  | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Noun (old use, in fairy tales): a very hard stone, unbreakable like diamond.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adamant:m2:1
# text = Noun (old use, in fairy tales): a very hard stone, unbreakable like diamond.
1	Noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	unbreakable	unbreakable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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She was adamant that she would not go.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adamant:x1:1
# text = She was adamant that she would not go.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | adamant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | would | she | adamant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location adamant=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The chains were made of adamant.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adamant:x2:1
# text = The chains were made of adamant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the chains |  |  |  | of adamant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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"No," said the king, adamant as ever.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adamant:x3:1
# text = "No," said the king, adamant as ever.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king and adamant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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**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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