Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 15
The inner ear has three loops filled with fluid; when you spin, the fluid swirls, and after you stop it keeps moving for a moment, so you feel dizzy.
Who acts: inner ear, you, fluid · What happens: have, fill, spin, swirl, stop, keep · To what, where: three loops
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» 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, you, fluid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 2 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ear | amod |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 loops | nummod |
| 6 | loops | loop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 loops | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fluid | case |
| 9 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 swirls | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 spin | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 spin | nsubj |
| 13 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 swirls | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spin | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fluid | det |
| 16 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swirls | nsubj |
| 17 | swirls | swirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keeps | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 keeps | cc |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 stop | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stop | nsubj |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keeps | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keeps | nsubj |
| 24 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 swirls | conj |
| 25 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 keeps | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 moment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moving | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stop | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 feel | advmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 feel | nsubj |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 33 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feel | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the inner ear | three loops | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | three loops not said here | with fluid | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fluid=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | spin | present | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swirl | present | the fluid | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | present | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | keep | present | fluid | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | move | gerund | fluid not said here | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | feel | present | you | dizzy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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