--- title: Your eyes catch light and your ears catch vibrations in the air, and… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Your eyes catch light and your ears catch vibrations in the air, and both turn what they catch into nerve signals that the brain makes into pictures and sounds. Who acts: eyes, both, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Senses: eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/) / 0 # Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 0 Your eyes catch light and your ears catch vibrations in the air, and both turn what they catch into nerve signals that the brain makes into pictures and sounds. **Who acts:** eyes, both, brain · **What happens:** catch, turn, make · **To what, where:** light, vibrations, air, nerve signals, pictures This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» 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, both, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:0 # text = Your eyes catch light and your ears catch vibrations in the air, and both turn what they catch into nerve signals that the brain makes into pictures and sounds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 9 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod 16 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | present | Your eyes | light and your ears | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | present | Your eyes *not said here* | vibrations | | the air | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | both | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | present | eyes *= eye* | | | nerve signals | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | the brain | nerve signals | | pictures and sounds | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into picture=Product | 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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:0`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The brain and nerves, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/18/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)