--- title: Your eyes and ears are how you learn about the world; if you cannot… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: Your eyes and ears are how you learn about the world; if you cannot see the board or hear the teacher clearly, a simple test can find out why, and glasses or hearing aids can help. Who acts: eyes, you, simple test, glasses. 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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 (eyes, you, simple test, glasses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:0 # text = Your eyes and ears are how you learn about the world; if you cannot see the board or hear the teacher clearly, a simple test can find out why, and glasses or hearing aids can help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 conj _ _ 38 aids aid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obj 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your eyes and ears | | | | | about the world; learn *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the board | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | | 3 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the teacher | | | | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teacher=Stimulus | | 4 | **find out** | can | a simple test | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | gerund | glasses and aids *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **help** | can | glasses and aids | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Sun, cold and growing up, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/22/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)