Hair, nails and ears, sentence 13

Ears clean themselves, so only the outside is washed, and cotton buds are never pushed inside.

Who acts: Ears · What happens: clean, wash, not push · To what, where: ears, outside, cotton buds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 (Ears), 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	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 clean	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 washed	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 washed	advmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 outside	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outside	det
8	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 washed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 washed	aux:pass
10	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clean	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pushed	cc
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buds	compound
14	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pushed	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pushed	aux:pass
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 pushed	advmod
17	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 washed	conj
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	17 pushed	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Ears	ears = ear		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	wash	present · passive		the outside		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not push	present · passive		cotton buds	inside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×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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