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title: gingham — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «gingham» in the school dictionary: Gingham is a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes, often blue and white. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# gingham

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**Who acts:** Gingham, checks, She, tablecloth, Mother · **What happens:** be, weave, pattern, wear, sew · **To what, where:** cotton cloth, pattern, blue gingham dress, gingham apron

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Gingham is a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes, often blue and white.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gingham:m1:1
# text = Gingham is a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes, often blue and white.
1	Gingham	Gingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Gingham | a cotton cloth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weave** | participle |  | a cotton cloth *not said here* |  | a pattern of checks or stripes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pattern=Trajectory |
| 3 | **be** |  | Gingham *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pattern** |  | checks or stripes |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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She wore a blue gingham dress.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gingham:x1:1
# text = She wore a blue gingham dress.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	gingham	gingham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | She | a blue gingham dress |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The tablecloth was white and red gingham.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gingham:x2:1
# text = The tablecloth was white and red gingham.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gingham	gingham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Mother sewed a gingham apron.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gingham:x3:1
# text = Mother sewed a gingham apron.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gingham	gingham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | Mother | a gingham apron |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Product |

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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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