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title: Eyes need guarding in sport: Isla from Aberdeen climbs out of the po… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Eyes need guarding in sport: Isla from Aberdeen climbs out of the pool saying «My een are nippin'!» (Scots for my eyes are stinging), and goggles that fit plus a shower before swimming help far more than blaming the chlorine. Who acts: Eyes, Isla, een, Scots. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and ey
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 2

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Eyes need guarding in sport: Isla from Aberdeen climbs out of the pool saying «My een are nippin'!» (Scots for my eyes are stinging), and goggles that fit plus a shower before swimming help far more than blaming the chlorine.

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**Who acts:** Eyes, Isla, een, Scots, goggles · **What happens:** need, guard, climb, say, be, sting · **To what, where:** sport, pool, nippin, chlorine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Eyes, Isla, een, Scots), 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:2
# text = Eyes need guarding in sport: Isla from Aberdeen climbs out of the pool saying «My een are nippin'!» (Scots for my eyes are stinging), and goggles that fit plus a shower before swimming help far more than blaming the chlorine.
# 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
17	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod:poss
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nummod
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nippin	nippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:ccomp
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	goggles	goggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:conj
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
42	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
43	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
45	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **need** | present | Eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** *not said to happen* | gerund | Eyes *not said here* |  |  | sport |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **climb** | present | Isla from Aberdeen |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out pool=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Isla from Aberdeen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My een | nippin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sting** | present · progressive | Scots  my eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **fit** | present | goggles plus a shower |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **swim** | gerund | goggles plus a shower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **help** | present | goggles plus a shower |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **blame** | gerund | goggles plus a shower *not said here* | the chlorine |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chlorine=Theme |

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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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**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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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