--- title: A sound straight in front of you or straight behind you reaches both… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: A sound straight in front of you or straight behind you reaches both ears at the same time, so turning your head a little helps you find it. Who acts: sound, turning, you. 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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 (sound, turning, you), 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:3 # text = A sound straight in front of you or straight behind you reaches both ears at the same time, so turning your head a little helps you find it. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 straight straight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 straight straight ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 12 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 21 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | present | a sound in front of you | both ears | | | time | straight *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | | your head | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | turning | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **find** | present | you | straight | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:3`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/2/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)