--- title: Crossing your eyes for a moment is harmless; the eye muscles relax b… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Crossing your eyes for a moment is harmless; the eye muscles relax back to normal, and the wind changes nothing. Who acts: Crossing, eye muscles, wind. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/10/) [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/) / [Eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/) / 10 # Eyes and ears, sentence 10 Crossing your eyes for a moment is harmless; the eye muscles relax back to normal, and the wind changes nothing. **Who acts:** Crossing, eye muscles, wind · **What happens:** cross, be, relax back, change · **To what, where:** eyes, nothing 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 (Crossing, eye muscles, wind), 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:10 # text = Crossing your eyes for a moment is harmless; the eye muscles relax back to normal, and the wind changes nothing. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 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 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 relax relax VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 22 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | | your eyes | | | moment | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Crossing | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **relax back** | present | the eye muscles | | | | | to normal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **change** | present | the wind | nothing | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:10`. **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 ×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: [Eyes and ears, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/9/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)