Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 1
A vacuum cleaner does not really suck: its fan throws air out of the back, the pressure inside drops, and the outside air rushes in at the nozzle, carrying the crumbs with it.
Who acts: vacuum cleaner, fan, pressure, outside air · What happens: not suck, throw, drop, rush in, carry · To what, where: air, back, nozzle, crumbs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vacuum cleaner, fan, pressure, outside air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cleaner | det |
| 2 | vacuum | vacuum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cleaner | compound |
| 3 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suck | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suck | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 suck | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 suck | advmod |
| 7 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 air | punct |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fan | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throws | nsubj |
| 11 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suck | parataxis |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throws | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 back | det |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 air | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pressure | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pressure | det |
| 19 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drops | nsubj |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 21 drops | case |
| 21 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 throws | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rushes | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rushes | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 air | amod |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rushes | nsubj |
| 27 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 throws | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 rushes | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 nozzle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nozzle | det |
| 31 | nozzle | nozzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rushes | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carrying | punct |
| 33 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 rushes | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crumbs | det |
| 35 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 carrying | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 carrying | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 suck | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suck | present · do-support | a vacuum cleaner | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | present | cleaner's fan | air | the back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme out back=Destination | |||
| 3 | drop | present | the pressure | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rush in | present | the outside air | the nozzle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nozzle=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | the outside air not said here | the crumbs | with Air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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