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title: A girl in Ohio climbed into the dryer during hide-and-seek; the door… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Ohio climbed into the dryer during hide-and-seek; the door shut and she could not open it from inside, and luckily her mum heard her knocking. Who acts: girl, door, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 18

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A girl in Ohio climbed into the dryer during hide-and-seek; the door shut and she could not open it from inside, and luckily her mum heard her knocking.

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**Who acts:** girl, door, mum · **What happens:** climb, seek, shut, not open, hear, knock · **To what, where:** hide, dryer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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 (girl, door, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:18
# text = A girl in Ohio climbed into the dryer during hide-and-seek; the door shut and she could not open it from inside, and luckily her mum heard her knocking.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dryer	dryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | a girl in Ohio | hide |  | the dryer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dryer=Destination |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | a girl in Ohio *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shut** | past | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **open** | could | door | hide |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past | door's mum |  |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **knock** | gerund | door's mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:18`.

**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 ×3. **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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