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title: smithy — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «smithy» in the school dictionary: A smithy is a workshop where a smith heats and hammers iron, often making or mending horseshoes and tools. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# smithy

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**Who acts:** smithy, smith, boy · **What happens:** be, heat, hammer, make, mend, shoe · **To what, where:** workshop, iron, horseshoes, horse, village smithy, smithy

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A smithy is a workshop where a smith heats and hammers iron, often making or mending horseshoes and tools.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:smithy:m1:1
# text = A smithy is a workshop where a smith heats and hammers iron, often making or mending horseshoes and tools.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	workshop	workshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hammers	hammer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	horseshoes	horseshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a smithy | a workshop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | present | a smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hammer** | present | a smith *not said here* | iron |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | a smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **mend** | gerund | a smith *not said here* | horseshoes and tools |  |  |  |  | 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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The horse was shod at the village smithy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:smithy:x1:1
# text = The horse was shod at the village smithy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	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	shod	shoe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoe** | past · passive |  | the horse |  | the village smithy |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The boy came out of the smithy again.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:smithy:x2:1
# text = The boy came out of the smithy again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the boy | the smithy |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient smithy=Result |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The smithy was hot from the big fire.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:smithy:x3:1
# text = The smithy was hot from the big fire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the smithy |  |  | the big fire |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

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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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