--- title: A sewing machine does not tie knots like your hands: a needle pushes… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics description: A sewing machine does not tie knots like your hands: a needle pushes the top thread down and a hook below loops it round a second thread, thousands of times a minute. Who acts: sewing machine, needle, hook. 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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 (sewing machine, needle, hook), 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:3 # text = A sewing machine does not tie knots like your hands: a needle pushes the top thread down and a hook below loops it round a second thread, thousands of times a minute. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sewing sewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 below below ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 loops loop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 round round ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 28 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 . . 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 | **not** **tie** | present · do-support | a sewing machine | knots | | | | like your hands | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | | 2 | **push** | present | a needle | the top thread | | | | down *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | | 3 | **loop** | present | a hook | thread | | a second thread | | thousands of times a minute *obl* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme round thread=Destination | 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. 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