Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 3

A sewing machine does not tie knots like your hands: a needle pushes the top thread down and a hook below loops it round a second thread, thousands of times a minute.

Who acts: sewing machine, needle, hook · What happens: not tie, push, loop · To what, where: knots, top thread, thread, second thread

This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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 (sewing machine, needle, hook), 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	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 machine	compound
3	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tie	advmod
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 pushes	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 needle	det
13	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	nsubj
14	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thread	det
16	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thread	amod
17	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	obj
18	down	down	ADV	_	14 pushes	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 loops	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hook	det
21	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loops	nsubj
22	below	below	ADV	_	21 hook	advmod
23	loops	loop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pushes	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 loops	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	28 thread	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 thread	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 thread	amod
28	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loops	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thousands	punct
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 loops	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 times	case
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thousands	nmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 minute	det
34	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thousands	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tie	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	not tie	present · do-support	a sewing machine	knots		like your hands	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
2	push	present	a needle	the top thread		down property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
3	loop	present	a hook	thread	a second thread	thousands of times a minute obl	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme round thread=Destination

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:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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