--- title: Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side,… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear. Who acts: water. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/18/) [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/) / [Hair, nails and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/) / 18 # Hair, nails and ears, sentence 18 Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear. **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** stick, drain, tilt, leave, cause · **To what, where:** Water, ear, head 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 (water), 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:18 # text = Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water Water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 drained drain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 tilting tilt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 22 swimmer swimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | participle | | Water *not said here* | | the ear | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ear=Destination | | 2 | **drain** | present · passive | | Water | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 3 | **tilt** | gerund | | the head | | | | to that side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | water *not said here* | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cause** | can | water | swimmer's ear | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ear=Patient | 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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Hair, nails and ears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/17/) - next →: [Hair, nails and ears, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/)