Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 1

Behind your eardrum is a little space, the middle ear; after a cold it can fill with fluid, and the pressure makes the ear really hurt.

Who acts: cold, pressure, ear · What happens: be, fill, make, hurt · To what, where: little space, eardrum, ear

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine 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 (cold, pressure, 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 eardrum	case
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eardrum	nmod:poss
3	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 space	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 space	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 space	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 space	amod
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ear	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ear	det
10	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ear	amod
11	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 space	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fill	punct
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 cold	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cold	det
15	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fill	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fill	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	aux
18	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 space	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 fluid	case
20	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fill	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 makes	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pressure	det
24	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	nsubj
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ear	det
27	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	obj
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 hurt	advmod
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 makes	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 space	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a little space and the middle ear	your eardrum			tree rules
2	fill	can	cold			after a cold	with fluid	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fluid=Instrument
3	make	present	the pressure	the ear				tree rules
4	hurt	infinitive	the ear not said here					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:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-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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