Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 2
Watch a washing machine on spin: the drum whirls so fast that the water is flung out through the little holes, just like water flying off a dog that shakes itself.
Who acts: you, drum, water, dog · What happens: watch, whirl, fling out, fly off, shake · To what, where: washing machine, spin, water, little holes, dog
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 (you, drum, water, dog), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 machine | det |
| 3 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 machine | compound |
| 4 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 spin | case |
| 6 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 whirls | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drum | det |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whirls | nsubj |
| 10 | whirls | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 whirls | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 flung | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 flung | aux:pass |
| 17 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fast | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 flung | compound:prt |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 holes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 holes | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 holes | amod |
| 22 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flung | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 water | punct |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 water | advmod |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whirls | obl |
| 27 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 water | acl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 flying | compound:prt |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dog | det |
| 30 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flying | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 shakes | nsubj |
| 32 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dog | acl:relcl |
| 33 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 shakes | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | a washing machine | spin | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme | |||
| 2 | whirl | present | the drum | like water; fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling out | present · passive | the water | the little holes | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through hole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fly off | gerund | water not said here | a dog | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shake | present | a dog | dog | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=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:2.
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 ×2. 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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