--- title: A T-shirt starts as fluffy cotton on a plant, which is cleaned, spun… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics description: A T-shirt starts as fluffy cotton on a plant, which is cleaned, spun into thread, knitted into fabric, dyed, cut and sewn, and much of the sewing is still done by people at very fast machines. Who acts: T shirt, people. 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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 (T shirt, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:1 # text = A T-shirt starts as fluffy cotton on a plant, which is cleaned, spun into thread, knitted into fabric, dyed, cut and sewn, and much of the sewing is still done by people at very fast machines. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 fluffy fluffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 spun spin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 knitted knit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 fabric fabric NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 dyed dyed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 sewn sew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sewing sewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 37 still still ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:agent _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38: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 | **start** | present | a T shirt | | | | | as fluffy cotton on a plant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **clean** | present · passive | | a plant | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **spin** | participle | | | | thread | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thread=Trajectory | | 4 | **knit** | participle | | | | fabric | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into fabric=Product | | 5 | **dyed** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **sew** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **do** | present · passive | people | much of the sewing | | fast machines | still | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | 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:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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