Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 12

Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out.

Who acts: you, Closing, eyes, muscles, pressure, sneeze · What happens: close, sneeze, be, not pop out, hold, not push out · To what, where: eyes, reflex

This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (you, Closing, eyes, muscles), 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	Closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reflex	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Closing	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 reflex	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sneeze	nsubj
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Closing	advcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reflex	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reflex	det
9	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 reflex	punct
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pop	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 pop	advmod
15	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reflex	parataxis
16	out	out	PART	_	15 pop	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hold	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 hold	mark
19	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hold	nsubj
20	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hold	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 push	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sneeze	det
24	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pressure	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 sneeze	case
26	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 push	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 push	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 push	advmod
29	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hold	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 push	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 push	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reflex	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	close	gerund		your eyes	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	sneeze	present	you		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Closing	a reflex	tree rules
4	not pop out	would	your eyes		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	hold	present	muscles	eyes = eye	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	not push out	present · do-support	the sneeze's pressure	eyes = eye	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	press		the sneeze		nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:12.

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 ×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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