--- title: A girl in Toronto pushed a cotton bud deep into her ear; it pressed… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Toronto pushed a cotton bud deep into her ear; it pressed the wax further in and scratched the eardrum, and her ear hurt for days. Who acts: girl, water, ear. 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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 (girl, water, ear), 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:19 # text = A girl in Toronto pushed a cotton bud deep into her ear; it pressed the wax further in and scratched the eardrum, and her ear hurt for days. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bud bud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 deep deep ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 further further ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 in in ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | a girl in Toronto | a cotton bud | | girl's ear | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bud=Theme into ear=Destination | | 2 | **press** | past | water | the wax | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme | | 3 | **scratch** | past | water *not said here* | the eardrum | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eardrum=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | past | girl's ear | | | | day | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:19`. **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/). - ← previous: [Hair, nails and ears, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/18/) - next →: [Hair, nails and ears, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/)