Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 15

If clothes bunch on one side, the spinning drum wobbles and the machine can shake or even walk across the floor; heavy concrete blocks inside many machines help keep it steady.

Who acts: clothes, spinning drum, heavy concrete blocks · What happens: bunch, spin, wobble, shake, walk, help · To what, where: one side, floor, drum

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, spinning drum, heavy concrete blocks), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 bunch	mark
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 bunch	nsubj
3	bunch	bunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bunch	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bunch	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drum	det
9	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 drum	amod
10	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wobbles	nsubj
11	wobbles	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 machine	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 machine	det
14	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wobbles	conj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	aux
16	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 walk	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 walk	advmod
19	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 shake	conj
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walk	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 blocks	punct
24	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 blocks	amod
25	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blocks	compound
26	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 help	nsubj
27	inside	inside	ADP	_	29 machines	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 machines	amod
29	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 blocks	nmod
30	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	parataxis
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 help	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 keep	obj
33	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 keep	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 shake	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	bunch a condition, not said to happen	present	clothes		one side		tree rules
2	spin	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	wobble	present	the spinning drum				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shake	can					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	walk	infinitive			the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory
6	help	present	heavy concrete blocks inside many machines				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	keep	infinitive	heavy concrete blocks inside many machines not said here	drum		steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×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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