Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 13

Clothes on a drying rack dry because the water slowly evaporates into the air; wind and warmth make it faster, and clothes dry even in cold weather, often fastest on a windy day.

Who acts: Clothes, water, wind · What happens: dry, evaporate, make · To what, where: air, cold weather

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 (Clothes, water, wind), 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	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 dry	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 rack	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rack	det
4	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rack	compound
5	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clothes	nmod
6	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 evaporates	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evaporates	nsubj
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 evaporates	advmod
11	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dry	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evaporates	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 warmth	cc
18	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wind	conj
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dry	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 make	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dry	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dry	cc
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 dry	nsubj
25	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dry	conj
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 weather	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 weather	case
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 weather	amod
29	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dry	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fastest	punct
31	often	often	ADV	_	32 fastest	advmod
32	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 dry	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 day	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 day	det
35	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 day	amod
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fastest	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry	present	Clothes on a drying rack				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	evaporate	present	the water		the air	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	infinitive	wind and warmth	air		fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	dry	present	clothes		cold weather	fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:13.

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): no change. 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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