Hair, nails and ears, sentence 19

A girl in Toronto pushed a cotton bud deep into her ear; it pressed the wax further in and scratched the eardrum, and her ear hurt for days.

Who acts: girl, water, ear · What happens: push, press, scratch, hurt · To what, where: cotton bud, ear, wax, eardrum

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 (girl, water, ear), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bud	det
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bud	compound
8	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	obj
9	deep	deep	ADV	_	12 ear	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 ear	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ear	nmod:poss
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pressed	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pressed	nsubj
15	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pushed	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wax	det
17	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pressed	obj
18	further	further	ADV	_	19 in	advmod
19	in	in	ADV	_	15 pressed	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scratched	cc
21	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pressed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eardrum	det
23	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scratched	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hurt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hurt	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ear	nmod:poss
27	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hurt	nsubj
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 scratched	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 days	case
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hurt	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	push	past	a girl in Toronto	a cotton bud	girl's ear		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bud=Theme into ear=Destination
2	press	past	water	the wax			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme
3	scratch	past	water not said here	the eardrum			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eardrum=Theme
4	hurt	past	girl's ear			day	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:19.

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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