--- title: A hairdryer blows air over hot wires, and has a cut-out that switche… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: A hairdryer blows air over hot wires, and has a cut-out that switches it off if it overheats. Who acts: hairdryer, cut out, air. A sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/) / 12 # Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 12 A hairdryer blows air over hot wires, and has a cut-out that switches it off if it overheats. **Who acts:** hairdryer, cut out, air · **What happens:** blow, have, switch off, overheat · **To what, where:** air, hot wires, cut out This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hairdryer, cut out, air), 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:12 # text = A hairdryer blows air over hot wires, and has a cut-out that switches it off if it overheats. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hairdryer hairdryer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 switches switch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 overheats overheat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 . . 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 | **blow** | present | a hairdryer | air | | hot wires | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | a hairdryer *not said here* | a cut out | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Patient | | 3 | **switch off** | present | a cut out | air | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **overheat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | air | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:12`. **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 ×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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/11/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)