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title: Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink. Who acts: Laundry, red sock. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 8

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Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.

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**Who acts:** Laundry, red sock · **What happens:** mean, sort, read, choose, turn · **To what, where:** colours, labels, right temperature, everything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Laundry, red sock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:8
# text = Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Laundry	Laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	obj	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	obj	_	_
23	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Laundry |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sort** | gerund |  | colours |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 3 | **read** | gerund |  | labels |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic |
| 4 | **choose** | gerund |  | the right temperature |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | present | a red sock in a white wash | everything |  |  |  | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:8`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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