--- title: Earwax cleans and protects the ear and usually moves out by itself;… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Earwax cleans and protects the ear and usually moves out by itself; cotton buds push it deeper. Who acts: Earwax, cotton buds. A sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine 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/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/13/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Sore throats, ears and eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/) / 13 # Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 13 Earwax cleans and protects the ear and usually moves out by itself; cotton buds push it deeper. **Who acts:** Earwax, cotton buds · **What happens:** clean, protect, move out, push · **To what, where:** ear This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 (Earwax, cotton buds), 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:13 # text = Earwax cleans and protects the ear and usually moves out by itself; cotton buds push it deeper. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Earwax earwax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | present | Earwax | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **protect** | present | Earwax *not said here* | the ear | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary | | 3 | **move out** | present | Earwax *not said here* | | | | | by ear; usually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory | | 4 | **push** | present | cotton buds | ear | | | | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/12/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)