--- title: It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak clearly. Who acts: aid, person, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/13/) [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/) / [Growing, seeing and hearing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/) / 13 # Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 13 It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak clearly. **Who acts:** aid, person, you · **What happens:** help, wear, face, speak · **To what, where:** person, hearing aid, test · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (aid, person, 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:13 # text = It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak clearly. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 . . 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 | **help** | present | aid | | a person | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | | 2 | **wear** | present | a person | a hearing aid | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Source | | 3 | **face** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | test | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:13`. **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): 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: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/12/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)