Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 14

Deep in each ear are three curved tubes full of fluid, set at right angles like the corner of a box, that tell the brain when the head turns.

Who acts: three curved tubes, head · What happens: be, curve, set, tell, turn · To what, where: ear, three curved tubes, right angles, brain · 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 (three curved tubes, head), 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	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ear	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ear	det
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deep	obl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Deep	cop
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tubes	nummod
7	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tubes	amod
8	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deep	nsubj
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tubes	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fluid	case
11	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
13	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tubes	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 angles	case
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 angles	amod
16	angles	angle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 corner	det
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 box	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 box	det
22	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 corner	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tubes	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 brain	det
27	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 turns	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 head	det
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turns	nsubj
31	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Deep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	three curved tubes		each ear	deep property	tree rules
2	curve	participle					vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
3	set	participle		three curved tubes not said here	right angles	like the corner of a box	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at angle=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	present	three curved tubes	the brain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient
5	turn	present	the head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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, 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:14.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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