--- title: Glue ear is sticky fluid left behind the eardrum after a cold that m… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Glue ear is sticky fluid left behind the eardrum after a cold that muffles sound; it often clears by itself, and if not, tiny tubes called grommets may help. Who acts: Glue ear, cold, ear, tiny tubes. 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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 (Glue ear, cold, ear, tiny tubes), 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:9 # text = Glue ear is sticky fluid left behind the eardrum after a cold that muffles sound; it often clears by itself, and if not, tiny tubes called grommets may help. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 muffles muffle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 clears clear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 grommets grommet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Glue ear | sticky fluid | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | sticky fluid *not said here* | | the eardrum | after a cold | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind eardrum=Location | | 3 | **muffle** | present | a cold | sound | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 4 | **clear** | present | ear | | | | | by eardrum; often *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **call** | participle | tiny tubes *not said here* | grommets | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grommet=Recipient | | 6 | **help** | may | tiny tubes | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/8/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)