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title: In car sickness the inner ear feels the car moving but eyes on a pag… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In car sickness the inner ear feels the car moving but eyes on a page say everything is still; looking out of the front window at the horizon helps them agree. Who acts: inner ear, car, eyes, everything. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and diz
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# Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 15

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In car sickness the inner ear feels the car moving but eyes on a page say everything is still; looking out of the front window at the horizon helps them agree.

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**Who acts:** inner ear, car, eyes, everything, looking, ears · **What happens:** feel, move, say, be, look out, help · **To what, where:** car, car sickness, front window, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (inner ear, car, eyes, everything), 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:15
# text = In car sickness the inner ear feels the car moving but eyes on a page say everything is still; looking out of the front window at the horizon helps them agree.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	ccomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advcl
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **feel** | present | the inner ear | the car |  | car sickness |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | the car *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | eyes on a page |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look out** | gerund |  | the front window at the horizon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | present | looking | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | ears *= ear* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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