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title: What would happen if the clothes all bunched up on one side during t… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the clothes all bunched up on one side during the spin? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing

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What would happen if the clothes all bunched up on one side during the spin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, bunch up · **To what, where:** clothes, one side

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the clothes all bunched up on one side during the spin?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bunched	bunch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bunch up** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle · passive |  | the clothes |  | one side | during the spin | all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The clothes would come out of the drum much drier than usual

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t5:o1:1
# text = The clothes would come out of the drum much drier than usual
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | would | the clothes |  |  |  |  | of the drum; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The machine would fill with soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t5:o2:1
# text = The machine would fill with soap
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | would | the machine |  |  |  |  | with soap | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The spin would go twice as fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t5:o3:1
# text = The spin would go twice as fast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the spin |  |  |  |  | fast, twice *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The drum would wobble and the machine might shake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t5:o4:1
# text = The drum would wobble and the machine might shake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wobble	wobble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wobble** | would | the drum |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | might | the machine |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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