--- title: A tumble dryer blows warm air through tumbling clothes to carry the… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: A tumble dryer blows warm air through tumbling clothes to carry the water away, and its filter catches fluff, which is tiny bits of your clothes and must be cleaned every time because it can catch fire. Who acts: tumble dryer, filter, fluff. 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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 (tumble dryer, filter, fluff), 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:7 # text = A tumble dryer blows warm air through tumbling clothes to carry the water away, and its filter catches fluff, which is tiny bits of your clothes and must be cleaned every time because it can catch fire. # 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 tumble tumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dryer dryer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tumbling tumble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ _ 9 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 filter filter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 fluff fluff NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 39 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **blow** | present | a tumble dryer | warm air | | tumbling clothes | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 2 | **tumble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **carry away** | to-infinitive | a tumble dryer *not said here* | the water | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | present | water's filter | fluff | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluff=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | fluff | tiny bits | | | | of your clothes | tree rules | | 6 | **clean** | must · passive | fluff *not said here* | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 7 | **catch** | can | filter | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:7`. **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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