--- title: A hearing aid helps a person hear, so respect it and do not touch it. — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: A hearing aid helps a person hear, so respect it and do not touch it. Who acts: hearing aid, person. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Eyes, ears and moving your body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/) / 12 # Eyes, ears and moving your body, sentence 12 A hearing aid helps a person hear, so respect it and do not touch it. **Who acts:** hearing aid, person · **What happens:** help, hear, respect, not touch · **To what, where:** person 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 (hearing aid, person), 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:12 # text = A hearing aid helps a person hear, so respect it and do not touch it. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 respect respect VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | a hearing aid | a person | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | infinitive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **respect** | infinitive | | person | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | | person | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | 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:12`. **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): no change. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/11/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)