Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 15
In car sickness the inner ear feels the car moving but eyes on a page say everything is still; looking out of the front window at the horizon helps them agree.
Who acts: inner ear, car, eyes, everything, looking, ears · What happens: feel, move, say, be, look out, help · To what, where: car, car sickness, front window, ears · 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 (inner ear, car, eyes, everything), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sickness | case |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sickness | compound |
| 3 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ear | det |
| 5 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ear | amod |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 car | det |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | obj |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 feels | xcomp |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 eyes | cc |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 say | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 page | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 page | det |
| 15 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feels | conj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 still | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 still | cop |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 say | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 helps | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 helps | csubj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 25 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 window | amod |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 horizon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horizon | det |
| 29 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 window | nmod |
| 30 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feels | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 helps | obj |
| 32 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helps | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the inner ear | the car | car sickness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | the car not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | eyes on a page | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | everything | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look out | gerund | the front window at the horizon | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | help | present | looking | ears = ear | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | infinitive | ears = ear not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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