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title: Two things happening together, such as new glasses and worse sight,… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Two things happening together, such as new glasses and worse sight, does not mean one caused the other. Who acts: Two things, one. 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.
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# Eyes and ears, sentence 18

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Two things happening together, such as new glasses and worse sight, does not mean one caused the other.

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**Who acts:** Two things, one · **What happens:** happen, not mean, cause · **To what, where:** other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Two things, one), 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:18
# text = Two things happening together, such as new glasses and worse sight, does not mean one caused the other.
# 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 ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | gerund | Two things such new glasses and worse sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Two things such new glasses and worse sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cause** | past | one | the other |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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 ×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/).

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