--- title: Grandma pushes the carrots across the table: "Eat up, they'll help y… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Grandma pushes the carrots across the table: "Eat up, they'll help you see in the dark!" She heard it as a child in the war, when everyone said British night pilots shot down enemy planes thanks to carrots. Who acts: Grandma, carrots, you, everyone. 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She heard it as a child in the war, when everyone said British night pilots shot down enemy planes thanks to carrots. **Who acts:** Grandma, carrots, you, everyone, British night pilots · **What happens:** push, eat up, help, see, hear, say · **To what, where:** carrots, table, dark, enemy planes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» 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 (Grandma, carrots, you, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:0 # text = Grandma pushes the carrots across the table: "Eat up, they'll help you see in the dark!" She heard it as a child in the war, when everyone said British night pilots shot down enemy planes thanks to carrots. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 003-eyes-and-ears.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 23 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 36 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:amod 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 pilots pilot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obj 39 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 enemy enemy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:amod 42 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:compound 43 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:discourse 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | Grandma | the carrots | | the table | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | future | carrots *= carrot* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | | | the dark | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hear** | past | Grandma | dark | | | | as a child in the war | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | everyone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **shoot down** | past | British night pilots | enemy planes | | | | thanks to carrots *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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: [Your amazing brain and senses, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/17/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)