Eyes and ears, sentence 13
Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brain rewires and attention is trained; their ears themselves are not stronger.
Who acts: Many blind people, brain, ears · What happens: use, rewire, train, not be · To what, where: sounds, attention
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» 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 (Many blind people, brain, ears), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 skilfully | advmod |
| 7 | skilfully | skilfully | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rewires | punct |
| 9 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 13 rewires | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 rewires | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brain | det |
| 12 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rewires | nsubj |
| 13 | rewires | rewire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trained | cc |
| 15 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 trained | aux:pass |
| 17 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rewires | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stronger | punct |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ears | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stronger | nsubj |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 ears | nmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stronger | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stronger | advmod |
| 24 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 use | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Many blind people | sounds | skilfully property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | |||
| 2 | rewire | present | the brain | partly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | train | present · passive | attention | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | people's ears ears | strong property | tree rules |
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:003-eyes-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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