Hair, nails and ears, sentence 18
Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear.
Who acts: water · What happens: stick, drain, tilt, leave, cause · To what, where: Water, ear, head
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 (water), 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 | Water | Water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Water | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ear | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ear | det |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stuck | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drained | aux:pass |
| 7 | drained | drain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 tilting | mark |
| 9 | tilting | tilt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 drained | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tilting | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tilting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 cause | mark |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cause | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 water | acl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 left | advmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cause | aux |
| 21 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 drained | advcl |
| 22 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ear | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 swimmer | case |
| 24 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cause | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle | Water not said here | the ear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ear=Destination | ||||
| 2 | drain | present · passive | Water | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | tilt | gerund | the head | to that side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | water not said here | there | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cause | can | water | swimmer's ear | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ear=Patient |
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:18.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/18/