--- title: Watch a washing machine on spin: the drum whirls so fast that the wa… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a washing machine on spin: the drum whirls so fast that the water is flung out through the little holes, just like water flying off a dog that shakes itself. Who acts: you, drum, water, dog. 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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 (you, drum, water, dog), 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:2 # text = Watch a washing machine on spin: the drum whirls so fast that the water is flung out through the little holes, just like water flying off a dog that shakes itself. # 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 ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 whirls whirl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 flung fling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 27 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a washing machine | | spin | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme | | 2 | **whirl** | present | the drum | | | | | like water; fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fling out** | present · passive | | the water | | the little holes | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through hole=Destination | | 4 | **fly off** | gerund | water *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | | 5 | **shake** | present | a dog | dog | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=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:2`. **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 ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/1/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)