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title: alabaster — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «alabaster» in the school dictionary: Alabaster is a smooth, pale, shiny white stone, often carved into statues and vases. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# alabaster

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**Who acts:** Alabaster, skin · **What happens:** be, carve, decorate, look · **To what, where:** statues, statue, white alabaster, castle

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Alabaster is a smooth, pale, shiny white stone, often carved into statues and vases.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:alabaster:m1:1
# text = Alabaster is a smooth, pale, shiny white stone, often carved into statues and vases.
1	Alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Alabaster |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Alabaster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carve** | participle | Alabaster *not said here* |  |  | statues and vases |  | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The statue was carved from white alabaster.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:alabaster:x1:1
# text = The statue was carved from white alabaster.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past · passive |  | the statue |  | white alabaster |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from alabaster=Material |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The castle was decorated with alabaster statues.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:alabaster:x2:1
# text = The castle was decorated with alabaster statues.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | past · passive |  | the castle |  |  |  | with alabaster statues | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with statue=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Her skin looked as smooth as alabaster.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:alabaster:x3:1
# text = Her skin looked as smooth as alabaster.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Her skin |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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