--- title: Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brai… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brain rewires and attention is trained; their ears themselves are not stronger. Who acts: Many blind people, brain, ears. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/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/) / [Eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/) / 13 # Eyes and ears, sentence 13 Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brain rewires and attention is trained; their ears themselves are not stronger. **Who acts:** Many blind people, brain, ears · **What happens:** use, rewire, train, not be · **To what, where:** sounds, attention 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 (Many blind people, brain, ears), 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:13 # text = Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brain rewires and attention is trained; their ears themselves are not stronger. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 7 skilfully skilfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 partly partly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rewires rewire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Many blind people | sounds | | | | skilfully *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 2 | **rewire** | present | the brain | | | | | partly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **train** | present · passive | | attention | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | people's ears ears | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | 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: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 ×2, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/12/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)