--- title: Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked them to count the passes; about half of them did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walking right through the middle. Who acts: Scientists, players, half, person. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/2/) [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/) / 2 # Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 2 Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked them to count the passes; about half of them did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walking right through the middle. **Who acts:** Scientists, players, half, person · **What happens:** show, pass, ask, count, not notice, walk · **To what, where:** video, people, ball, passes, person, gorilla suit 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 (Scientists, players, half, person), 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:2 # text = Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked them to count the passes; about half of them did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walking right through the middle. # 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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 passes pass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 25 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ _ 33 right right ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | Scientists | a video of players | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient video=Topic | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | players *not said here* | a ball | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Trajectory | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Scientists *not said here* | | people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **count** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | the passes | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme | | 5 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | half of Scientists | a person | | a gorilla suit | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 6 | **walk** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | the middle | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/1/) - next →: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/)