--- title: If the pressure gets very high the eardrum can get a tiny hole that… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: If the pressure gets very high the eardrum can get a tiny hole that lets pus out and eases the pain; it usually heals in a few weeks. Who acts: pressure, eardrum, tiny hole. 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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 (pressure, eardrum, tiny hole), 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:8 # text = If the pressure gets very high the eardrum can get a tiny hole that lets pus out and eases the pain; it usually heals in a few weeks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 pus pus NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 eases ease VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 usually usually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the pressure | | | | | high *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **get** | can | the eardrum | a tiny hole | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus | | 3 | **let** | present | a tiny hole | pus | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pus=Theme | | 4 | **ease** | present | a tiny hole *not said here* | the pain | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 5 | **heal** | present | eardrum | | | | week | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/7/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)