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title: petticoat — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «petticoat» in the school dictionary: A skirt worn under a dress, long ago. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# petticoat

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**Who acts:** magic garment, She · **What happens:** wear, do, turn · **To what, where:** skirt, dress, odd things, tale, white petticoat, blue dress

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«petticoat» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 2 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: [petticoat in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/petticoat.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A skirt worn under a dress, long ago.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:petticoat:m1:1
# text = A skirt worn under a dress, long ago.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | participle · passive |  | a skirt |  | a dress |  | ago *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: old use, in fairy tales — kept apart, not parsed.

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A magic garment that does odd things in a tale.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:petticoat:m2:1
# text = A magic garment that does odd things in a tale.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | a magic garment | odd things |  | a tale |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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She wore a white petticoat under her blue dress.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:petticoat:x1:1
# text = She wore a white petticoat under her blue 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	5	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	under	under	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	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 white petticoat |  | her blue dress |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent petticoat=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The magic petticoat turned into drink.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:petticoat:x2:1
# text = The magic petticoat turned into drink.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | participle |  | the magic petticoat *not said here* |  | drink |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into drink=Trajectory |

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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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