Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 13
It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak clearly.
Who acts: aid, person, you · What happens: help, wear, face, speak · To what, where: person, hearing aid, test · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday 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 (aid, person, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wears | nsubj |
| 6 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 person | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 aid | det |
| 8 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aid | compound |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wears | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 face | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 face | nsubj |
| 12 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wears | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 face | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 speak | cc |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 face | conj |
| 16 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 15 speak | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | aid | a person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | a person | a hearing aid | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Source | ||||
| 3 | face a condition, not said to happen | present | you | test | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | you not said here | clearly property | vn talk-37.5 «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:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): 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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