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title: The inner ear has a balance organ that senses how your head moves an… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: The inner ear has a balance organ that senses how your head moves and tilts. Who acts: inner ear, balance organ, head. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 10

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The inner ear has a balance organ that senses how your head moves and tilts.

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**Who acts:** inner ear, balance organ, head · **What happens:** have, sense, move, tilt · **To what, where:** balance organ

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» 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 (inner ear, balance organ, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:10
# text = The inner ear has a balance organ that senses how your head moves and tilts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 002-balance-and-falling-well.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	senses	sense	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tilts	tilt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | the inner ear | a balance organ |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Patient |
| 2 | **sense** | present | a balance organ |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move** | present | your head |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tilt** | present | your head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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