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title: Never climb into a washing machine or dryer, never use a hairdryer n… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics
description: Never climb into a washing machine or dryer, never use a hairdryer near a bath or sink, because water and electricity together can kill, never vacuum pets, hair or fingers, and never touch a hot iron or leave it face down. Who acts: you, water. A sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming an
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# Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 16

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Never climb into a washing machine or dryer, never use a hairdryer near a bath or sink, because water and electricity together can kill, never vacuum pets, hair or fingers, and never touch a hot iron or leave it face down.

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**Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** not climb, not use, kill, not vacuum, not touch, leave · **To what, where:** washing machine, hairdryer, bath, pets, hot iron, water

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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 (you, water), 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:16
# text = Never climb into a washing machine or dryer, never use a hairdryer near a bath or sink, because water and electricity together can kill, never vacuum pets, hair or fingers, and never touch a hot iron or leave it face down.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dryer	dryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hairdryer	hairdryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	vacuum	vacuum	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:appos
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a washing machine or dryer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into machine=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hairdryer |  | a bath or sink |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hairdryer=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | can | water and electricity |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **vacuum** | infinitive | you *not said here* | pets and hair or fingers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pet=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hot iron |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme iron=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **face down** | infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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