Eyes and ears, sentence 4
But two myths can really hurt: looking at the Sun during an eclipse can burn the back of your eye without any pain, and loud music can damage your hearing without hurting, and that damage does not grow back.
Who acts: two myths, looking, loud music, damage, your · What happens: hurt, look, burn, damage, not grow back, hear · To what, where: back, hearing
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 (two myths, looking, loud music, damage), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 hurt | cc |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 myths | nummod |
| 3 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 burn | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 burn | csubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun | det |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 eclipse | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 eclipse | det |
| 14 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 burn | aux |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurt | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 back | det |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eye | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eye | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nmod |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 pain | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 pain | det |
| 24 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 damage | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 damage | cc |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 music | amod |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 damage | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 damage | aux |
| 30 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 burn | conj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hearing | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 damage | obj |
| 33 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 34 hurting | mark |
| 34 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 damage | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 grow | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 grow | cc |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 damage | det |
| 38 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grow | nsubj |
| 39 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 grow | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 grow | advmod |
| 41 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hurting | conj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 grow | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | two myths | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | during a eclipse | at the Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | can | looking | the back of your eye | without any pain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 4 | damage | can | loud music | your hearing | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hurt | gerund | loud music not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not grow back | present · do-support | that damage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hear | your | nom hearing «act intransitive»: 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:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:4.
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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