Hair, nails and ears, sentence 21

Cotton buds pushed into the ear can damage the eardrum and push wax deeper, so doctors say not to put anything in the ear.

Who acts: Cotton buds, doctors · What happens: push, damage, say, not put · To what, where: Cotton buds, ear, eardrum, wax, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cotton buds, doctors), 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	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buds	compound
2	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 damage	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 buds	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 damage	aux
8	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eardrum	det
10	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 damage	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 push	cc
12	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 damage	conj
13	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obj
14	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 push	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
17	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 damage	parataxis
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 put	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 ear	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ear	det
25	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 damage	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	participle		Cotton buds not said here	the ear		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination
2	damage	can	Cotton buds	the eardrum			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eardrum=Patient
3	push	infinitive	Cotton buds not said here	wax		deep property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	doctors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not put	to-infinitive		anything	the ear		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme in ear=Destination

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:21.

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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