--- title: Cutting an onion lets out a gas that stings the eye, and reflex tear… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Cutting an onion lets out a gas that stings the eye, and reflex tears wash it away; there are also everyday tears that keep eyes wet and tears when you feel sad or very happy. Who acts: Cutting, gas, reflex tears, everyday tears. 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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 (Cutting, gas, reflex tears, everyday tears), 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:10 # text = Cutting an onion lets out a gas that stings the eye, and reflex tears wash it away; there are also everyday tears that keep eyes wet and tears when you feel sad or very happy. # 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 ×2 1 Cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 onion onion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wash wash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | gerund | | a onion | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset onion=Product | | 2 | **let out** | present | Cutting | a gas | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme | | 3 | **sting** | present | a gas | the eye | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 4 | **wash away** | present | reflex tears | gas | | | | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **does** | present | everyday tears and tears | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | present | everyday tears and tears | eyes | | | | wet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 7 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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