--- title: You have two ears, one on each side; a sound from your left reaches… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: You have two ears, one on each side; a sound from your left reaches your left ear a tiny moment sooner and a little louder, and your brain uses that difference to tell where the sound is. Who acts: You, sound, brain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sound, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:2 # text = You have two ears, one on each side; a sound from your left reaches your left ear a tiny moment sooner and a little louder, and your brain uses that difference to tell where the sound is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 020-noticing-like-a-cat.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 27 louder louder ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 ccomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | You | two ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **reach** | present | a sound from your left | your left ear | | | | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | your brain | that difference | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | your brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the sound | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | 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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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): R5-strong ×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: [Thinking about noticing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/1/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)