--- title: The "sea" you hear in a seashell is the sound around you echoing ins… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: The "sea" you hear in a seashell is the sound around you echoing inside the shell; a cup held to your ear does the same. Who acts: you, sea, sound, cup. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / 13 # Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 13 The "sea" you hear in a seashell is the sound around you echoing inside the shell; a cup held to your ear does the same. **Who acts:** you, sea, sound, cup · **What happens:** hear, be, echo, hold, do · **To what, where:** sea, seashell, sound, shell, ear, same This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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, sea, sound, cup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:13 # text = The "sea" you hear in a seashell is the sound around you echoing inside the shell; a cup held to your ear does the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 seashell seashell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 around around ADP IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 15 echoing echo VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 16 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | you | the sea *not said here* | | a seashell | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | the sea | the sound | | | | you *nmod* | tree rules | | 3 | **echo** | gerund | the sound *not said here* | | | the shell | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside shell=Location | | 4 | **hold** | participle | a cup *not said here* | your ear | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present | a cup | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | 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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): 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: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/12/) - next →: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/)