Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 1
Think of spinning round in the playground and stopping: the world keeps turning because fluid inside your ears is still swirling, like tea that keeps going round after you stop stirring.
Who acts: you, world, fluid, tea · What happens: think, spin round, stop, keep, turn, swirl · To what, where: playground
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology 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 (you, world, fluid, tea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 spinning | mark |
| 3 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Think | advcl |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 spinning | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 playground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 playground | det |
| 7 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spinning | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stopping | cc |
| 9 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spinning | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 swirling | mark |
| 16 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swirling | nsubj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 ears | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fluid | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 swirling | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 swirling | advmod |
| 22 | swirling | swirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 turning | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tea | punct |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 tea | case |
| 25 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swirling | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 keeps | nsubj |
| 27 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tea | acl:relcl |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 keeps | xcomp |
| 29 | round | round | ADV | _ | 28 going | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 32 stop | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 stop | nsubj |
| 32 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keeps | advcl |
| 33 | stirring | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 stop | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spin round | gerund | you not said here | the playground | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | stop | gerund | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | the world | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | turn | gerund | the world not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | swirl | present · progressive | fluid inside your ears | still | like tea | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | keep | present | tea | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go round | gerund | tea not said here | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | stop | present | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | stir | gerund | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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, 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:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.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): R5-strong ×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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