--- title: To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, with… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, without shouting. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 10 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 10 To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, without shouting. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** help, face, speak, shout · **To what, where:** someone, sounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:10 # text = To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, without shouting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 face face VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | someone | | | with poor hearing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary with hearing=Theme | | 2 | **face** | imperative | you *not said here* | sounds *= sound* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:10`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/9/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)