Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 1

Most of them use one of a few tricks: spinning very fast, blowing air, sucking air in, or heating with an element.

Who acts: Most · What happens: use, spin, blow, suck in, heat · To what, where: one, air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology 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 (Most), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 use	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 use	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tricks	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tricks	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tricks	amod
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 spinning	punct
11	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 one	advcl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 spinning	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blowing	punct
15	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spinning	conj
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blowing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sucking	punct
18	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spinning	conj
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sucking	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	18 sucking	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heating	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 heating	cc
23	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spinning	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 element	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 element	det
26	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heating	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Most of people	one of a few tricks		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	spin	gerund	Most of people not said here		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	gerund	Most of people not said here	air		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient
4	suck in	gerund	Most of people not said here	air		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source
5	heat	gerund	Most of people not said here		with a element	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with element=Instrument

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:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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