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title: Knitting machines have hundreds of tiny hooked needles that pull loo… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: Knitting machines have hundreds of tiny hooked needles that pull loops of yarn through other loops, the same idea as hand knitting but much faster. Who acts: Knitting machines, tiny hooked needles. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology course of Mova's pr
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# Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 13

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Knitting machines have hundreds of tiny hooked needles that pull loops of yarn through other loops, the same idea as hand knitting but much faster.

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**Who acts:** Knitting machines, tiny hooked needles · **What happens:** have, hook, pull · **To what, where:** hundreds, loops, other loops

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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: who acts (Knitting machines, tiny hooked needles), 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:13
# text = Knitting machines have hundreds of tiny hooked needles that pull loops of yarn through other loops, the same idea as hand knitting but much faster.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Knitting	knit	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Knitting machines | hundreds of tiny hooked needles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |
| 2 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | present | tiny hooked needles | loops of yarn |  | other loops |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-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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