--- title: Most of them use one of a few tricks: spinning very fast, blowing ai… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: Most of them use one of a few tricks: spinning very fast, blowing air, sucking air in, or heating with an element. Who acts: Most. 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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 (Most), 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:1 # text = Most of them use one of a few tricks: spinning very fast, blowing air, sucking air in, or heating with an element. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 heating heat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Most of people | one of a few tricks | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | Most of people *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | gerund | Most of people *not said here* | air | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 4 | **suck in** | gerund | Most of people *not said here* | air | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source | | 5 | **heat** | gerund | Most of people *not said here* | | | | | with a element | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with element=Instrument | 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/0/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)