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title: Rubbing an eye with sand in it can scratch the clear front of the ey… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Rubbing an eye with sand in it can scratch the clear front of the eye; rinsing with clean water washes it out gently. Who acts: Rubbing, rinsing. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 13

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Rubbing an eye with sand in it can scratch the clear front of the eye; rinsing with clean water washes it out gently.

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**Who acts:** Rubbing, rinsing · **What happens:** rub, scratch, rinse, wash out · **To what, where:** eye, clear front, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine 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 (Rubbing, rinsing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:13
# text = Rubbing an eye with sand in it can scratch the clear front of the eye; rinsing with clean water washes it out gently.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
17	rinsing	rinse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod
21	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | gerund |  | a eye |  |  |  | with sand in sand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with sand=Theme |
| 2 | **scratch** | can | Rubbing | the clear front of the eye |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent front=Theme |
| 3 | **rinse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with clean water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wash out** | present | rinsing | front |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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