Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 10

A bagless vacuum spins the air like a whirlwind, flinging dust to the sides of the bin where it drops; the idea came from big dust separators in sawmills.

Who acts: bagless vacuum, air, idea · What happens: spin, fling, drop, come · To what, where: air, dust, sides, big dust separators

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 (bagless vacuum, air, idea), 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 vacuum	det
2	bagless	bagless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vacuum	amod
3	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 whirlwind	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 whirlwind	det
9	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flinging	punct
11	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spins	advcl
12	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flinging	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sides	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sides	det
15	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flinging	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bin	det
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sides	nmod
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 drops	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drops	nsubj
21	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bin	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spins	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 separators	case
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 separators	amod
28	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 separators	compound
29	separators	separator	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 sawmills	case
31	sawmills	sawmill	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 separators	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spins	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spin	present	a bagless vacuum	the air		like a whirlwind	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme
2	fling	gerund	a bagless vacuum not said here	dust	the sides of the bin		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent dust=Theme to side=Destination
3	drop	present	air				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the idea		big dust separators in sawmills		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from separator=Initial_Location

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:10.

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): R7-rel-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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