--- title: Earwax traps dust, helps keep germs out and moves out by itself as y… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Earwax traps dust, helps keep germs out and moves out by itself as you chew and talk; cotton buds often push it deeper, and one gene decides whether it is dry and flaky or wet and sticky. Who acts: Earwax, you, cotton buds, one gene. 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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 (Earwax, you, cotton buds, one gene), 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:13 # text = Earwax traps dust, helps keep germs out and moves out by itself as you chew and talk; cotton buds often push it deeper, and one gene decides whether it is dry and flaky or wet and sticky. # 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): R1-cc-next ×6, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Earwax earwax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 traps trap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 10 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obl _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 25 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 gene gene NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 36 flaky flaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 38 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 40 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj 41 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **trap** | present | Earwax | dust | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient | | 2 | **help** | present | Earwax *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **keep out** | infinitive | Earwax *not said here* | germs | | | | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 4 | **move out** | present | Earwax *not said here* | | | | | by Earwax | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory | | 5 | **chew** | present | you | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **talk** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **push** | present | cotton buds | Earwax | | | | deep, often *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **decide** | present | one gene | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | gene | | | | | dry *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **be** | | gene *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **be** | | gene *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×6, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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