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title: Crisp potatoes are washed, peeled by spinning against rough rollers,… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Crisp potatoes are washed, peeled by spinning against rough rollers, sliced very thin, fried or baked, flavoured in a tumbling drum and bagged. A sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 4

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Crisp potatoes are washed, peeled by spinning against rough rollers, sliced very thin, fried or baked, flavoured in a tumbling drum and bagged.

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**What happens:** wash, peel, spin, slice, fry, bake · **To what, where:** Crisp potatoes, rough rollers, tumbling drum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:4
# text = Crisp potatoes are washed, peeled by spinning against rough rollers, sliced very thin, fried or baked, flavoured in a tumbling drum and bagged.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Crisp	crisp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	peeled	peel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rollers	roller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sliced	slice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	flavoured	flavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tumbling	tumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bagged	bag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
28	.	.	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 | **wash** | present · passive |  | Crisp potatoes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **peel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  | rough rollers |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against roller=Trajectory |
| 4 | **slice** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **flavour** | participle |  |  |  | a tumbling drum |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **bag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): 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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