--- title: A vacuum cleaner's fan pushes air out, leaving lower pressure inside… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics description: A vacuum cleaner's fan pushes air out, leaving lower pressure inside (less air pushing), so the air outside rushes in through the hose carrying dust. Who acts: fan, air, hose. 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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 (fan, air, hose), 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:9 # text = A vacuum cleaner's fan pushes air out, leaving lower pressure inside (less air pushing), so the air outside rushes in through the hose carrying dust. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 inside inside ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 17 pushing push NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 outside outside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push out** | present | a vacuum cleaner's fan | air | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | a vacuum cleaner's fan *not said here* | lower pressure | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme | | 3 | **rush in** | present | the air | | | the hose | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hose=Trajectory | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | the hose *not said here* | dust | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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:9`. **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. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/7/) - next →: [Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/)