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title: brilliancy — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «brilliancy» in the school dictionary: Brilliancy is great brightness or sparkle of light, or a dazzling shine; it is another word for brilliance. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# brilliancy

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**Who acts:** Brilliancy, eyes · **What happens:** be, dazzle, glow · **To what, where:** great brightness, word, Dorothy, scales

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Brilliancy is great brightness or sparkle of light, or a dazzling shine; it is another word for brilliance.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brilliancy:m1:1
# text = Brilliancy is great brightness or sparkle of light, or a dazzling shine; it is another word for brilliance.
1	Brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	brilliance	brilliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Brilliancy | great brightness or sparkle of light or a dazzling shine and another word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Brilliancy | another word |  |  |  | for brilliance | tree rules |

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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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Dorothy and her friends were dazzled by the brilliancy of the City.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brilliancy:x1:1
# text = Dorothy and her friends were dazzled by the brilliancy of the City.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dazzle** | past · passive | the brilliancy of the City | Dorothy and her friends |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Her eyes were dark, yet full of light and brilliancy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brilliancy:x2:1
# text = Her eyes were dark, yet full of light and brilliancy.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her eyes |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Her eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of light and brilliancy | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The scales glowed with a purple brilliancy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brilliancy:x3:1
# text = The scales glowed with a purple brilliancy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | participle |  | the scales *not said here* |  |  |  | with a purple brilliancy | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brilliancy=Theme |

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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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