--- title: A sewing machine locks each stitch by looping the needle's top threa… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics description: A sewing machine locks each stitch by looping the needle's top thread round a second thread from below; factory machines can make around five thousand stitches a minute, so fingers stay well away from the needle. Who acts: sewing machine, factory machines, fingers. 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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, factory machines, fingers), 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:9 # text = A sewing machine locks each stitch by looping the needle's top thread round a second thread from below; factory machines can make around five thousand stitches a minute, so fingers stay well away from the needle. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6: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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 locks lock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 stitch stitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 looping loop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 17 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 below below ADV RB _ 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 25 around around ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nummod 27 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | **lock** | present | a sewing machine | each stitch | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stitch=Patient | | 2 | **loop** | gerund | a sewing machine *not said here* | the needle's top thread | | a second thread | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thread=Theme round thread=Destination | | 3 | **make** | can | factory machines | thousand stitches | | | minute | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product | | 4 | **stay** | present | fingers | | | the needle | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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