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title: seamstress — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «seamstress» in the school dictionary: A woman whose job is sewing and mending clothes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# seamstress

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**Who acts:** woman, seamstress, seamstresses, Mum · **What happens:** sew, mend, work, finish, take, tear · **To what, where:** clothes, new school dress, gowns, torn coat, seamstress

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A woman whose job is sewing and mending clothes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:seamstress:m1:1
# text = A woman whose job is sewing and mending clothes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | present · progressive | a woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mend** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | 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 seamstress sewed my new school dress.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:seamstress:x1:1
# text = The seamstress sewed my new school dress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seamstress	seamstress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | the seamstress | my new school dress |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The seamstresses worked late to finish the gowns.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:seamstress:x2:1
# text = The seamstresses worked late to finish the gowns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seamstresses	seamstress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | the seamstresses |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the seamstresses *not said here* | the gowns |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality gown=Eventuality |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Mum took the torn coat to the seamstress.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:seamstress:x3:1
# text = Mum took the torn coat to the seamstress.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seamstress	seamstress	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 | **take** | past | Mum | the torn coat |  | the seamstress |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coat=Theme to seamstress=Destination |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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