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title: Ears clean themselves, so only the outside is washed, and cotton bud… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Ears clean themselves, so only the outside is washed, and cotton buds are never pushed inside. Who acts: Ears. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hair, nails and ears, sentence 13

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Ears clean themselves, so only the outside is washed, and cotton buds are never pushed inside.

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**Who acts:** Ears · **What happens:** clean, wash, not push · **To what, where:** ears, outside, cotton buds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 (Ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:13
# text = Ears clean themselves, so only the outside is washed, and cotton buds are never pushed inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 077-hair-nails-and-ears.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
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **clean** | present | Ears | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** | present · passive |  | the outside |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **push** | present · passive |  | cotton buds |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×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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