--- title: Your eyes and ears are not just windows and holes: they are clever m… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Your eyes and ears are not just windows and holes: they are clever machines with lenses, wipers, drains, pipes and tiny spirit levels, and the brain quietly fixes their faults so you never notice. Who acts: eyes, brain, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, brain, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:0 # text = Your eyes and ears are not just windows and holes: they are clever machines with lenses, wipers, drains, pipes and tiny spirit levels, and the brain quietly fixes their faults so you never notice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 lenses lens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wipers wiper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 levels level NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 notice notice VERB VBP Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Your eyes and ears | windows and holes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | eyes *= eye* | clever machines and tiny spirit levels | | | | with lenses and wipers and drains and pipes | tree rules | | 3 | **fix** | present | the brain | eyes's faults | | | | quietly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | | 4 | **not** **notice** | present | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **fault** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom fault «act 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](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:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:0`. **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): 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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