--- title: If clothes bunch on one side, the spinning drum wobbles and the mach… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: If clothes bunch on one side, the spinning drum wobbles and the machine can shake or even walk across the floor; heavy concrete blocks inside many machines help keep it steady. Who acts: clothes, spinning drum, heavy concrete blocks. 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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, spinning drum, heavy concrete blocks), 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:15 # text = If clothes bunch on one side, the spinning drum wobbles and the machine can shake or even walk across the floor; heavy concrete blocks inside many machines help keep it steady. # 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 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bunch bunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 across across ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 25 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 inside inside ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **bunch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | clothes | | | one side | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wobble** | present | the spinning drum | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shake** | can | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **walk** | infinitive | | | | the floor | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | | 6 | **help** | present | heavy concrete blocks inside many machines | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | heavy concrete blocks inside many machines *not said here* | drum | | | | steady *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. 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