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title: Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening around you, so that you spot trouble early and have time to act. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 0

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Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening around you, so that you spot trouble early and have time to act.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, mean, use, know, happen, spot · **To what, where:** eyes, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:0
# text = Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening around you, so that you spot trouble early and have time to act.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 011-eyes-up.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
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | your eyes and ears |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | around you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around you=Location |
| 6 | **spot** | present | you | trouble |  |  |  | early *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Destination |
| 7 | **have** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **act** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «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:everyday:011-eyes-up.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): 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/).

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