--- title: Earwax protects and cleans your ears by itself; doctors say not to p… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Earwax protects and cleans your ears by itself; doctors say not to push cotton buds inside, as they can push wax deeper or hurt the eardrum, and the packets themselves warn not to put them inside the ear. Who acts: Earwax, doctors, packets. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths cours --- [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/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/) / [Eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/) / 12 # Eyes and ears, sentence 12 Earwax protects and cleans your ears by itself; doctors say not to push cotton buds inside, as they can push wax deeper or hurt the eardrum, and the packets themselves warn not to put them inside the ear. **Who acts:** Earwax, doctors, packets · **What happens:** protect, clean, say, not push, push, hurt · **To what, where:** ears, cotton buds, wax, eardrum, packets, ear · **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 (Earwax, doctors, packets), 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:12 # text = Earwax protects and cleans your ears by itself; doctors say not to push cotton buds inside, as they can push wax deeper or hurt the eardrum, and the packets themselves warn not to put them inside the ear. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Earwax earwax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 15 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 inside inside ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 23 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eardrum eardrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 packets packet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 32 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:appos 34 warn warn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:ccomp 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 inside inside ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **protect** | present | Earwax | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **clean** | present | Earwax *not said here* | your ears | | | | by Earwax | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | doctors | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **push** | to-infinitive | doctors *not said here* | cotton buds | | | | inside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Theme | | 5 | **push** | can | doctors *= doctor* | wax | | | | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme | | 6 | **hurt** | infinitive | doctors *= doctor* *not said here* | the eardrum | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient | | 7 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | the packets packets | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **put** | to-infinitive | the packets packets *not said here* | packets *= packet* | | the ear | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme inside ear=Destination | 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: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): 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: [Eyes and ears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/11/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)