Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 5
A washing machine fills with water, turns the clothes back and forth so they rub with soap, drains, rinses, and then spins fast so the water flies out through the holes in the drum.
Who acts: washing machine, machines, water · What happens: fill, turn, rub, spin, fly out · To what, where: clothes, holes
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 (washing machine, machines, water), 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 machine | det |
| 2 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 machine | compound |
| 3 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fills | nsubj |
| 4 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fills | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fills | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clothes | det |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 turns | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 turns | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forth | cc |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 back | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 rub | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rub | nsubj |
| 16 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 soap | case |
| 18 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rub | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drains | punct |
| 20 | drains | drain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 soap | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rinses | punct |
| 22 | rinses | rinse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 soap | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spins | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spins | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | _ | 26 spins | advmod |
| 26 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 spins | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 31 flies | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flies | nsubj |
| 31 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 spins | advcl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 flies | compound:prt |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 holes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 holes | det |
| 35 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 flies | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 drum | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 drum | det |
| 38 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 holes | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fills | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | a washing machine | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a washing machine not said here | the clothes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rub | present | machines = machine | with soap and drains and rinses | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with soap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spin | present | a washing machine not said here | then | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | fly out | present | the water | the holes in the drum | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Location |
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:5.
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. 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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