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title: If sand or dirt gets in your eye, you do not rub it; you blink, rins… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: If sand or dirt gets in your eye, you do not rub it; you blink, rinse it with clean water and tell an adult. Who acts: sand, you. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 21

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If sand or dirt gets in your eye, you do not rub it; you blink, rinse it with clean water and tell an adult.

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**Who acts:** sand, you · **What happens:** get, not rub, blink, rinse, tell · **To what, where:** eye, sand, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sand, you), 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:21
# text = If sand or dirt gets in your eye, you do not rub it; you blink, rinse it with clean water and tell an adult.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	blink	blink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sand or dirt |  |  | your eye |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **rub** | present · do-support | you | sand |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **blink** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rinse** | imperative | you *not said here* | sand |  |  |  | with clean water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:21`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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