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title: Differences in height, glasses and hearing aids are normal and never… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Differences in height, glasses and hearing aids are normal and never a reason to tease. Who acts: Differences. 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 14

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Differences in height, glasses and hearing aids are normal and never a reason to tease.

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**Who acts:** Differences · **What happens:** hear, be, tease · **To what, where:** aids

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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 (Differences), 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:14
# text = Differences in height, glasses and hearing aids are normal and never a reason to tease.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	aids	aid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **hear** | gerund | Differences in height and glasses *not said here* | aids |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer aid=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Differences in height and glasses |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tease** | to-infinitive | Differences in height and glasses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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): 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/).

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