Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 9

A sewing machine locks each stitch by looping the needle's top thread round a second thread from below; factory machines can make around five thousand stitches a minute, so fingers stay well away from the needle.

Who acts: sewing machine, factory machines, fingers · What happens: lock, loop, make, stay · To what, where: stitch, top thread, second thread, thousand stitches, needle

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, factory machines, fingers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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