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title: These machines are strong and some get hot, so they come with rules:… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics
description: These machines are strong and some get hot, so they come with rules: no climbing in, no fingers near, and no water near anything plugged in. Who acts: machines, some. A sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 4

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These machines are strong and some get hot, so they come with rules: no climbing in, no fingers near, and no water near anything plugged in.

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**Who acts:** machines, some · **What happens:** be, get, come, plug in

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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 (machines, some), 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:4
# text = These machines are strong and some get hot, so they come with rules: no climbing in, no fingers near, and no water near anything plugged in.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nsubj
29	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | this machines |  |  |  |  | no water  anything *obl*; near, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | some |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present | machines *= machine* |  |  |  |  | with rules | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plug in** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «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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**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:4`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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