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title: A boy in Texas rubbed his eye after cutting chillies and later after… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Texas rubbed his eye after cutting chillies and later after playing in sand; the eye got red, sore and sticky, and he needed drops from the doctor. Who acts: boy, eye. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 18

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A boy in Texas rubbed his eye after cutting chillies and later after playing in sand; the eye got red, sore and sticky, and he needed drops from the doctor.

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**Who acts:** boy, eye · **What happens:** rub, cut, play, get, need · **To what, where:** eye, chillies, sand, drops, doctor

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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 (boy, eye), 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:18
# text = A boy in Texas rubbed his eye after cutting chillies and later after playing in sand; the eye got red, sore and sticky, and he needed drops from the doctor.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	chillies	chilli	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct
23	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
30	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | a boy in Texas | boy's eye |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* | chillies |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chilli=Product |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* |  |  | sand |  | late *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past | the eye |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **need** | past | boy | drops |  | the doctor |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drop=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:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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