--- title: Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something unusual. Who acts: Knowing, place. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/12/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/) / 12 # Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 12 Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something unusual. **Who acts:** Knowing, place · **What happens:** know, be, make, spot · **To what, where:** place, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Knowing, place), 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:12 # text = Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something unusual. # 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 Knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 10 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | a place | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | Knowing | place | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **spot** | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | something | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Destination | 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:everyday:011-eyes-up.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. **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: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/11/) - next →: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/)