--- title: Behind your eardrum is a little space, the middle ear; after a cold… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Behind your eardrum is a little space, the middle ear; after a cold it can fill with fluid, and the pressure makes the ear really hurt. Who acts: cold, pressure, ear. 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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 (cold, pressure, ear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:1 # text = Behind your eardrum is a little space, the middle ear; after a cold it can fill with fluid, and the pressure makes the ear really hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Behind behind ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a little space and the middle ear | | your eardrum | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fill** | can | cold | | | | after a cold | with fluid | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fluid=Instrument | | 3 | **make** | present | the pressure | the ear | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | the ear *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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, 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: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/0/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)