--- title: Clothes on a drying rack dry because the water slowly evaporates int… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: Clothes on a drying rack dry because the water slowly evaporates into the air; wind and warmth make it faster, and clothes dry even in cold weather, often fastest on a windy day. Who acts: Clothes, water, wind. 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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, water, wind), 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:13 # text = Clothes on a drying rack dry because the water slowly evaporates into the air; wind and warmth make it faster, and clothes dry even in cold weather, often fastest on a windy day. # 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): no change 1 Clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 drying drying NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rack rack NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 dry dry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dry dry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 xcomp _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dry** | present | Clothes on a drying rack | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **evaporate** | present | the water | | | the air | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | wind and warmth | air | | | | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **dry** | present | clothes | | | cold weather | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «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:13`. **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): no change. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/12/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)