Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 3
A vacuum cleaner does not really suck at all: a fan pushes air out, and the air outside pushes in, carrying the crumbs with it.
Who acts: vacuum cleaner, fan, air · What happens: not suck, push out, push in, carry · To what, where: all, air, crumbs
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 (vacuum cleaner, fan, air), 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 cleaner | det |
| 2 | vacuum | vacuum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cleaner | compound |
| 3 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suck | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suck | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 suck | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 suck | advmod |
| 7 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 suck | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 suck | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fan | det |
| 12 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suck | parataxis |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pushes | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pushes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pushes | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pushes | nsubj |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 19 air | advmod |
| 21 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pushes | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 pushes | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carrying | punct |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pushes | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crumbs | det |
| 26 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carrying | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carrying | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 suck | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suck | present · do-support | a vacuum cleaner | all | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at all=Source | ||||
| 2 | push out | present | a fan | air | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push in | present | the air | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the air not said here | the crumbs | with air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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