--- title: A hearing aid is a small device that helps a person hear; you respec… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: A hearing aid is a small device that helps a person hear; you respect it and never touch it. Who acts: hearing aid, small device, person, 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 (hearing aid, small device, 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:2 # text = A hearing aid is a small device that helps a person hear; you respect it and never 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 device device NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 respect respect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hearing aid | a small device | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | a small device | a person | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | infinitive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **respect** | present | you | person | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **touch** | present | you *not said here* | person | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/1/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)