--- title: A washing machine fills with water, turns the clothes back and forth… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: A washing machine fills with water, turns the clothes back and forth so they rub with soap, drains, rinses, and then spins fast so the water flies out through the holes in the drum. Who acts: washing machine, machines, water. 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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 (washing machine, machines, 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:5 # text = A washing machine fills with water, turns the clothes back and forth so they rub with soap, drains, rinses, and then spins fast so the water flies out through the holes in the drum. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 obj _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 forth forth ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rub rub VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 rinses rinse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | a washing machine | | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 2 | **turn** | present | a washing machine *not said here* | the clothes | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 3 | **rub** | present | machines *= machine* | | | | | with soap and drains and rinses | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with soap=Theme | | 4 | **spin** | present | a washing machine *not said here* | | | | then | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fly out** | present | the water | | | the holes in the drum | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Location | 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:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/4/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)