--- title: An iron's element heats the base plate and a thermostat holds it at… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: An iron's element heats the base plate and a thermostat holds it at the setting; steam helps the cloth fibres relax and lie flat. Who acts: element, thermostat, steam, cloth fibres. 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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 (element, thermostat, steam, cloth fibres), 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:11 # text = An iron's element heats the base plate and a thermostat holds it at the setting; steam helps the cloth fibres relax and lie flat. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 thermostat thermostat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 setting setting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 relax relax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **heat** | present | a iron's element | the base plate | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | present | a thermostat | plate | | the setting | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at setting=Location | | 3 | **help** | present | steam | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **relax** | infinitive | the cloth fibres | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **lie** | infinitive | the cloth fibres *not said here* | | | | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/10/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)