Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 11

An iron's element heats the base plate and a thermostat holds it at the setting; steam helps the cloth fibres relax and lie flat.

Who acts: element, thermostat, steam, cloth fibres · What happens: heat, hold, help, relax, lie · To what, where: base plate, plate, setting

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 (element, thermostat, steam, cloth fibres), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 iron	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 element	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 iron	case
4	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heats	nsubj
5	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plate	det
7	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plate	compound
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heats	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 holds	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thermostat	det
11	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holds	nsubj
12	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heats	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 holds	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 setting	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 setting	det
16	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holds	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 helps	punct
18	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 helps	nsubj
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heats	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fibres	det
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fibres	compound
22	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 relax	nsubj
23	relax	relax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 helps	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lie	cc
25	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 relax	conj
26	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lie	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heat	present	a iron's element	the base plate			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
2	hold	present	a thermostat	plate	the setting		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at setting=Location
3	help	present	steam				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	relax	infinitive	the cloth fibres				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	lie	infinitive	the cloth fibres not said here			flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.

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:11.

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 ×3, 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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