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title: Eyes are precious and cannot be replaced: lasers and chemicals can h… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: Eyes are precious and cannot be replaced: lasers and chemicals can hurt them for life, so we never point lasers at anyone and we wear safety glasses for experiments. Who acts: Eyes, lasers, we. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 0

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Eyes are precious and cannot be replaced: lasers and chemicals can hurt them for life, so we never point lasers at anyone and we wear safety glasses for experiments.

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**Who acts:** Eyes, lasers, we · **What happens:** be, not replace, hurt, not point, wear · **To what, where:** Eyes, lasers, anyone, safety glasses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 (Eyes, lasers, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:0
# text = Eyes are precious and cannot be replaced: lasers and chemicals can hurt them for life, so we never point lasers at anyone and we wear safety glasses for experiments.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	lasers	laser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
23	lasers	laser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Eyes |  |  |  |  | precious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **replace** | can · passive | Eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme» |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | lasers and chemicals | Eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | for life | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **point** | present | we | lasers |  | anyone |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laser=Patient |
| 5 | **wear** | present | we | safety glasses |  |  |  | for experiments | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source |

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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:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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