Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 13

Earwax traps dust, helps keep germs out and moves out by itself as you chew and talk; cotton buds often push it deeper, and one gene decides whether it is dry and flaky or wet and sticky.

Who acts: Earwax, you, cotton buds, one gene, gene · What happens: trap, help, keep out, move out, chew, talk · To what, where: dust, germs, Earwax · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Earwax, you, cotton buds, one gene), 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	Earwax	earwax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traps	nsubj
2	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traps	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helps	punct
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 traps	conj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helps	xcomp
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 moves	cc
10	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 moves	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 itself	case
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 moves	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 chew	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 chew	nsubj
16	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 moves	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talk	cc
18	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 chew	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 traps	punct
20	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buds	compound
21	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 push	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 push	advmod
23	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 traps	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 push	obj
25	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 push	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 decides	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 decides	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 gene	nummod
29	gene	gene	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 decides	nsubj
30	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 push	conj
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 dry	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dry	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dry	cop
34	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 decides	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flaky	cc
36	flaky	flaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dry	conj
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 wet	cc
38	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dry	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sticky	cc
40	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 wet	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 traps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trap	present	Earwax	dust		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
2	help	present	Earwax not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	keep out	infinitive	Earwax not said here	germs	out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
4	move out	present	Earwax not said here		by Earwax	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory
5	chew	present	you			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	talk	present	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	push	present	cotton buds	Earwax	deep, often property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	decide	present	one gene			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	gene		dry property	tree rules
10	be		gene not said here			tree rules
11	be		gene not said here			tree rules

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:13.

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 ×6, R2-punct-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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