--- title: Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not p… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics description: Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out. Who acts: you, Closing, eyes, muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/12/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Your amazing brain and senses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/) / 12 # Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 12 Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out. **Who acts:** you, Closing, eyes, muscles, pressure, sneeze · **What happens:** close, sneeze, be, not pop out, hold, not push out · **To what, where:** eyes, reflex This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (you, Closing, eyes, muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:12 # text = Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sneeze sneeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 pop pop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 16 out out PART RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | gerund | | your eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **sneeze** | present | you | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Closing | a reflex | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **pop out** | would | your eyes | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hold** | present | muscles | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **not** **push out** | present · do-support | the sneeze's pressure | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **press** | | the sneeze | | | | | | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:12`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Your amazing brain and senses, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/11/) - next →: [Your amazing brain and senses, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/)