--- title: Swallowing, yawning or chewing helps sore ears during landing, becau… — Airports and planes · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowing, yawning or chewing helps sore ears during landing, because it helps the pressure in your ears even out. Who acts: Swallowing, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» 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/271-airports-and-planes/9/) [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/) / [Airports and planes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/) / 9 # Airports and planes, sentence 9 Swallowing, yawning or chewing helps sore ears during landing, because it helps the pressure in your ears even out. **Who acts:** Swallowing, belt · **What happens:** swallow, yawn, chew, help, help out · **To what, where:** sore ears, pressure, ears This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» 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 (Swallowing, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:9 # text = Swallowing, yawning or chewing helps sore ears during landing, because it helps the pressure in your ears even out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 271-airports-and-planes.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 yawning yawn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 during during ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 out out ADV RB _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yawn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chew** | gerund | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | Swallowing | sore ears | | | during landing | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary | | 5 | **help out** | present | belt | the pressure | | your ears | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Beneficiary | 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:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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: [Airports and planes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/8/) - next →: [Airports and planes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/)