Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 7
A tumble dryer blows warm air through tumbling clothes to carry the water away, and its filter catches fluff, which is tiny bits of your clothes and must be cleaned every time because it can catch fire.
Who acts: tumble dryer, filter, fluff · What happens: blow, tumble, carry away, catch, be, clean · To what, where: warm air, tumbling clothes, water, fluff, tiny bits, fire
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 (tumble dryer, filter, fluff), 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 dryer | det |
| 2 | tumble | tumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dryer | compound |
| 3 | dryer | dryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 air | amod |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 8 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 blows | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blows | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 catches | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 catches | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 filter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 catches | nsubj |
| 19 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blows | conj |
| 20 | fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 catches | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bits | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bits | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bits | cop |
| 24 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bits | amod |
| 25 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fluff | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 clothes | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 bits | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cleaned | cc |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 cleaned | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 32 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 bits | conj |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cleaned | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 catch | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 catch | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 catch | aux |
| 38 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 cleaned | advcl |
| 39 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 catch | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | a tumble dryer | warm air | tumbling clothes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | carry away | to-infinitive | a tumble dryer not said here | the water | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 4 | catch | present | water's filter | fluff | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluff=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | fluff | tiny bits | of your clothes | tree rules | |||
| 6 | clean | must · passive | fluff not said here | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 7 | catch | can | filter | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:7.
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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