--- title: A vacuum cleaner does not really suck: its fan throws air out of the… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics description: A vacuum cleaner does not really suck: its fan throws air out of the back, the pressure inside drops, and the outside air rushes in at the nozzle, carrying the crumbs with it. Who acts: vacuum cleaner, fan, pressure, outside air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vacuum cleaner, fan, pressure, outside air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:1 # text = A vacuum cleaner does not really suck: its fan throws air out of the back, the pressure inside drops, and the outside air rushes in at the nozzle, carrying the crumbs with it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 inside inside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 nozzle nozzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **suck** | present · do-support | a vacuum cleaner | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **throw** | present | cleaner's fan | air | | the back | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme out back=Destination | | 3 | **drop** | present | the pressure | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rush in** | present | the outside air | | | the nozzle | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nozzle=Trajectory | | 5 | **carry** | gerund | the outside air *not said here* | the crumbs | | | | with Air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | 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](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:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacu…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/0/) - next →: [Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacu…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/)