--- title: Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubb… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases. Who acts: Cleaning machines, people. 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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 (Cleaning machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:0 # text = Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cleaning clean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ _ 2 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 9 advmod _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 scrubbing scrub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wringing wring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 21 carpets carpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ _ 24 creases crease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **do** | present | Cleaning machines | the boring jobs | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **do** | past | people | the boring jobs *not said here* | | | | by hand and scrubbing clothes; once *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 4 | **scrub** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wring out** | gerund | | people | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **beat** | gerund | | carpets | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carpet=Theme | | 7 | **press** | gerund | | creases | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crease=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:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/18/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)