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title: A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes th… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes them together so each tooth hooks into the gap opposite; its modern form dates from about 1913; a zip with a missing tooth keeps coming apart there, and zips should be pulled slowly with skin kept away from the teeth. Who acts: zip, s
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# Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 16

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A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes them together so each tooth hooks into the gap opposite; its modern form dates from about 1913; a zip with a missing tooth keeps coming apart there, and zips should be pulled slowly with skin kept away from the teeth.

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**Who acts:** zip, slider, tooth, modern form · **What happens:** have, push, hook, date, keep, come apart · **To what, where:** two rows, rows, gap opposite, 1913, zips, skin

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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 (zip, slider, tooth, modern form), 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:16
# text = A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes them together so each tooth hooks into the gap opposite; its modern form dates from about 1913; a zip with a missing tooth keeps coming apart there, and zips should be pulled slowly with skin kept away from the teeth.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zip	zip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tapes	tape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	slider	slider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hooks	hook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	zip	zip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	xcomp	_	_
43	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:advmod
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=41:cc
47	zips	zip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
51	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl	_	_
55	away	away	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
59	.	.	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 | a zip | two rows of teeth on cloth tapes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 2 | **push** | present | the slider | rows *= row* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **hook** | present | each tooth |  |  | the gap opposite |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into opposite=Destination |
| 4 | **date** | present | slider's modern form |  |  | 1913 |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | present | a zip with a missing tooth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come apart** | gerund | a zip with a missing tooth *not said here* |  |  | there |  | apart *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **pull** | should · passive |  | zips |  |  |  | with skin; slowly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **keep away** | participle |  | skin *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **form** |  | slider |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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