--- title: Clothes stick together after the tumble dryer because tumbling charg… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Clothes stick together after the tumble dryer because tumbling charges them, while clothes dried on a line in open air hardly ever cling, and a dryer sheet tumbled with them stops the charge building up. Who acts: Clothes, dryer sheet. 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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 (Clothes, dryer sheet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:11 # text = Clothes stick together after the tumble dryer because tumbling charges them, while clothes dried on a line in open air hardly ever cling, and a dryer sheet tumbled with them stops the charge building up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tumble tumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dryer dryer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 tumbling tumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 nsubj _ _ 10 charges charge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 24 nsubj _ _ 15 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 22 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 advmod _ _ 24 cling cling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 dryer dryer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 tumbled tumble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 35 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick together** | present | Clothes | | | | after the tumble dryer | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tumble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **charge** | present | | Clothes | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | participle | | clothes in open air *not said here* | | a line | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cling** | infinitive | clothes in open air | | | | ever | hardly *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tumble** | participle | | a dryer sheet *not said here* | | | | with Clothes | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with they=Co-Patient | | 7 | **stop** | present | a dryer sheet | charge building | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality building=Eventuality | 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:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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