Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 13
Earwax cleans and protects the ear and usually moves out by itself; cotton buds push it deeper.
Who acts: Earwax, cotton buds · What happens: clean, protect, move out, push · To what, where: 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 (Earwax, cotton buds), 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 | Earwax | earwax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cleans | nsubj |
| 2 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 protects | cc |
| 4 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cleans | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ear | det |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 protects | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moves | cc |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 moves | advmod |
| 9 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cleans | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 moves | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 itself | case |
| 12 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 moves | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 push | punct |
| 14 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buds | compound |
| 15 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 push | nsubj |
| 16 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cleans | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 push | obj |
| 18 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 push | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cleans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | present | Earwax | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | protect | present | Earwax not said here | the ear | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | move out | present | Earwax not said here | by ear; usually property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | push | present | cotton buds | ear | deep property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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