--- title: Deep in each ear are three curved tubes full of fluid, set at right… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Deep in each ear are three curved tubes full of fluid, set at right angles like the corner of a box, that tell the brain when the head turns. Who acts: three curved tubes, head. 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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 (three curved tubes, head), 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:14 # text = Deep in each ear are three curved tubes full of fluid, set at right angles like the corner of a box, that tell the brain when the head turns. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 angles angle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | three curved tubes | | | each ear | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **set** | participle | | three curved tubes *not said here* | | right angles | | like the corner of a box | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at angle=Destination | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | three curved tubes | the brain | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient | | 5 | **turn** | present | the head | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:14`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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