"wh-movement" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wh-movements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "wh-movement (countable and uncountable, plural wh-movements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "A-bar movement"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-wh-movement-en-noun-d1kfNzBL",
      "links": [
        [
          "syntactic",
          "syntactic"
        ],
        [
          "interrogative",
          "interrogative"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "wh-words",
          "wh-words"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(syntax) a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wh-in-situ"
        },
        {
          "word": "wh-island"
        },
        {
          "word": "wh-word"
        },
        {
          "word": "parasitic gap"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wh-extraction"
        },
        {
          "word": "wh-fronting"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "syntax"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑問詞移位"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "ji⁴ man⁶ ci⁴ ji⁴ wai⁶",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑问词移位"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑問詞移位"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yíwèncí yíwèi",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑问词移位"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mouvement qu-"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "peremeščénije voprosítelʹnyx slóv",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "перемеще́ние вопроси́тельных сло́в"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wh-movement"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wh-movements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "wh-movement (countable and uncountable, plural wh-movements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "A-bar movement"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "wh-in-situ"
    },
    {
      "word": "wh-island"
    },
    {
      "word": "wh-word"
    },
    {
      "word": "parasitic gap"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Cantonese translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "syntactic",
          "syntactic"
        ],
        [
          "interrogative",
          "interrogative"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "wh-words",
          "wh-words"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(syntax) a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "syntax"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wh-extraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "wh-fronting"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑問詞移位"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ji⁴ man⁶ ci⁴ ji⁴ wai⁶",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑问词移位"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑問詞移位"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yíwèncí yíwèi",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑问词移位"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mouvement qu-"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peremeščénije voprosítelʹnyx slóv",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перемеще́ние вопроси́тельных сло́в"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wh-movement"
}