--- title: Never push anything like a pencil or hairgrip into your ear; it can… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: Never push anything like a pencil or hairgrip into your ear; it can hurt the eardrum, the thin skin deep inside the ear that lets you hear, so tell an adult if something is stuck. Who acts: you, damage, thin skin, something. 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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, damage, thin skin, something), 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:18 # text = Never push anything like a pencil or hairgrip into your ear; it can hurt the eardrum, the thin skin deep inside the ear that lets you hear, so tell an adult if something is stuck. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 push push VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 hairgrip hairgrip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 22 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 23 inside inside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | anything | | your ear | | like a pencil or hairgrip | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme into ear=Destination | | 2 | **hurt** | can | damage | the eardrum | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient | | 3 | **let** | present | the thin skin | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | stuck *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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/17/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)