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title: Think of spinning round in the playground and stopping: the world ke… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of spinning round in the playground and stopping: the world keeps turning because fluid inside your ears is still swirling, like tea that keeps going round after you stop stirring. Who acts: you, world, fluid, tea. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tear
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# Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 1

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Think of spinning round in the playground and stopping: the world keeps turning because fluid inside your ears is still swirling, like tea that keeps going round after you stop stirring.

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**Who acts:** you, world, fluid, tea · **What happens:** think, spin round, stop, keep, turn, swirl · **To what, where:** playground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology 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, world, fluid, tea), 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:1
# text = Think of spinning round in the playground and stopping: the world keeps turning because fluid inside your ears is still swirling, like tea that keeps going round after you stop stirring.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	swirling	swirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	round	round	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
33	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spin round** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the playground |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** | present | the world |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **swirl** | present · progressive | fluid inside your ears |  |  |  | still | like tea | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | present | tea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go round** | gerund | tea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **stir** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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. **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/).

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