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title: milliner — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «milliner» in the school dictionary: A milliner is a person who makes or sells hats, especially women's hats and bonnets. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# milliner

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**Who acts:** milliner, person, Mum, window · **What happens:** be, make, sell, buy · **To what, where:** person, hats, straw bonnet, milliner, hat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A milliner is a person who makes or sells hats, especially women's hats and bonnets.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:milliner:m1:1
# text = A milliner is a person who makes or sells hats, especially women's hats and bonnets.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	milliner	milliner	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	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 milliner | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | present | a person *not said here* | hats and bonnets |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

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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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Mum bought a straw bonnet from the milliner.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:milliner:x1:1
# text = Mum bought a straw bonnet from the milliner.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	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	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	milliner	milliner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Mum | a straw bonnet |  | the milliner |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bonnet=Theme from milliner=Source |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The milliner's window was full of bright hats.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:milliner:x2:1
# text = The milliner's window was full of bright hats.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	milliner	milliner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the milliner's window |  |  |  |  | of bright hats; full *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The milliner made a hat with red ribbons.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:milliner:x3:1
# text = The milliner made a hat with red ribbons.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	milliner	milliner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the milliner | a hat |  |  |  | with red ribbons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hat=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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