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title: dressmaker — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «dressmaker» in the school dictionary: a person whose job is to make dresses and other clothes for people. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# dressmaker

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**Who acts:** person, dressmaker, aunt · **What happens:** be, sew, measure · **To what, where:** blue dress, dressmaker, town, girl

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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a person whose job is to make dresses and other clothes for people.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dressmaker:m1:1
# text = a person whose job is to make dresses and other clothes for people.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a person |  |  |  |  | for people; make *property* | 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 dressmaker sewed a blue dress for the princess.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dressmaker:x1:1
# text = The dressmaker sewed a blue dress for the princess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dressmaker	dressmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | the dressmaker | a blue dress |  |  |  | for the princess | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dress=Material for princess=Beneficiary |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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My aunt is a dressmaker in town.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dressmaker:x2:1
# text = My aunt is a dressmaker in town.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	aunt	aunt	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	dressmaker	dressmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | My aunt | a dressmaker |  | town |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The dressmaker measured the girl for her new frock.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dressmaker:x3:1
# text = The dressmaker measured the girl for her new frock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dressmaker	dressmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | past | the dressmaker | the girl |  |  |  | for dressmaker's new frock | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme girl=Value |

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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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