--- title: Inside the ear are tiny hair cells that turn sound into signals for… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: Inside the ear are tiny hair cells that turn sound into signals for the brain; very loud noise can damage them for ever, and ringing in the ears is a warning. Who acts: tiny hair cells, loud noise, ringing. 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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 (tiny hair cells, loud noise, ringing), 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:1 # text = Inside the ear are tiny hair cells that turn sound into signals for the brain; very loud noise can damage them for ever, and ringing in the ears is a warning. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Inside inside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 parataxis _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 parataxis _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 ringing ring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 a** | present | | tiny hair cells | | the ear | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | tiny hair cells | sound | | signals for the brain | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sound=Theme into signal=Trajectory | | 3 | **damage** | can | loud noise | ears *= ear* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **ring** | gerund | | | | the ears | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | | 5 | **is a** | present | ringing | a warning | | | | | tree rules | 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:1`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/0/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)