Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 11

Tears drain through two tiny holes at the inner corner of each eye into the nose, which is why your nose runs when you cry.

Who acts: Tears, nose, you · What happens: drain, be, run, cry · To what, where: two tiny holes

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 (Tears, nose, you), 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	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drain	nsubj
2	drain	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 holes	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 holes	nummod
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 holes	amod
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drain	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 corner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corner	det
9	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 corner	amod
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holes	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 eye	det
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corner	nmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 nose	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nose	det
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drain	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 runs	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 why	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 runs	advmod
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nose	nmod:poss
22	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 runs	nsubj
23	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drain	acl:relcl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 cry	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 cry	nsubj
26	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 runs	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	drain	present	Tears	two tiny holes at the inner corner of each eye	into the nose	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
2	is	present			why property	tree rules
3	run	present	your nose			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	you			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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): no change. 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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