--- title: A vacuum cleaner does not really suck at all: a fan pushes air out,… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: A vacuum cleaner does not really suck at all: a fan pushes air out, and the air outside pushes in, carrying the crumbs with it. Who acts: vacuum cleaner, fan, air. 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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 (vacuum cleaner, fan, 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:3 # text = A vacuum cleaner does not really suck at all: a fan pushes air out, and the air outside pushes in, carrying the crumbs with it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 outside outside ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **suck** | present · do-support | a vacuum cleaner | | | all | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at all=Source | | 2 | **push out** | present | a fan | air | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **push in** | present | the air | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | the air *not said here* | the crumbs | | | | with air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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