--- title: A boy in Vancouver gets water in his ear after swimming; he tilts hi… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Vancouver gets water in his ear after swimming; he tilts his head to that side, hops a little, lets it drain and dries the outside with his towel. Who acts: boy, head. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Hair, nails and ears, sentence 4 A boy in Vancouver gets water in his ear after swimming; he tilts his head to that side, hops a little, lets it drain and dries the outside with his towel. **Who acts:** boy, head · **What happens:** get, swim, tilt, hop, let, drain · **To what, where:** water, ear, head, little, outside 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 (boy, head), 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:4 # text = A boy in Vancouver gets water in his ear after swimming; he tilts his head to that side, hops a little, lets it drain and dries the outside with his towel. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tilts tilt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 hops hop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 drain drain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **get** | present | a boy in Vancouver | water | | boy's ear | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | | 2 | **swim** | gerund | a boy in Vancouver *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tilt** | present | boy | boy's head | | | | to that side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **hop** | present | boy *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **let** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drain** | infinitive | head | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 7 | **dry** | present | | the outside | | | | with boy's towel | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent outside=Patient with towel=Instrument | 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. 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