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title: The story that your eyes pop out if you sneeze with them open is not… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story that your eyes pop out if you sneeze with them open is not true; closing them is just a reflex. Who acts: eyes, you, story, closing. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 12

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The story that your eyes pop out if you sneeze with them open is not true; closing them is just a reflex.

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**Who acts:** eyes, you, story, closing · **What happens:** pop out, sneeze, not be, close, be · **To what, where:** story, eyes, reflex

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (eyes, you, story, closing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:12
# text = The story that your eyes pop out if you sneeze with them open is not true; closing them is just a reflex.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pop	pop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	reflex	reflex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop out** | present | your eyes | the story |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **sneeze** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with eyes *= eye*; open *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | gerund |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | closing | a reflex |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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