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title: You respect someone's hearing aid and do not touch it. — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: You respect someone's hearing aid and do not touch it. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 12

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You respect someone's hearing aid and do not touch it.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** respect, not touch · **To what, where:** hearing aid, aid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:12
# text = You respect someone's hearing aid and do not touch it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	respect	respect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | present | You | someone's hearing aid |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aid=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | You *not said here* | aid |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): 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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