gingham

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

«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.

Meaning 1

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

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gingham	Gingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cloth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	compound
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cloth	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pattern	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pattern	det
9	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woven	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 checks	case
11	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pattern	nmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 stripes	cc
13	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 checks	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blue	punct
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 blue	advmod
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 white	cc
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blue	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cloth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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

She wore a blue gingham dress.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dress	amod
5	gingham	gingham	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	compound
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

#	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

The tablecloth was white and red gingham.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tablecloth	det
2	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gingham	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gingham	amod
7	gingham	gingham	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct

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

Example 3

Mother sewed a gingham apron.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sewed	nsubj
2	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 apron	det
4	gingham	gingham	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apron	compound
5	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sewed	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sewed	punct

#	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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