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title: To help a deaf or hard-of-hearing classmate, face them and speak cle… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics
description: To help a deaf or hard-of-hearing classmate, face them and speak clearly without shouting, so they can lip-read. Who acts: you, deaf. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, ears and moving your body» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Eyes, ears and moving your body, sentence 11

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To help a deaf or hard-of-hearing classmate, face them and speak clearly without shouting, so they can lip-read.

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**Who acts:** you, deaf · **What happens:** help, face, speak, shout, lip, read · **To what, where:** deaf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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 (you, deaf), 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:11
# text = To help a deaf or hard-of-hearing classmate, face them and speak clearly without shouting, so they can lip-read.
# 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 ×4
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
4	deaf	deaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	face	face	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lip	lip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | deaf or a hearing classmate |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deaf=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **face** | imperative | you *not said here* | deaf |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lip** | can | deaf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | infinitive | deaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:11`.

**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 ×4. **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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