--- title: Eye and ear myths are everywhere: square eyes from sitting close to… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Eye and ear myths are everywhere: square eyes from sitting close to the telly, eyes stuck crossed when the wind changes, glasses that make eyes lazy, torches under the covers that ruin your sight, blind people with super ears. Who acts: Eye, wind, glasses, covers. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Eyes and ears, sentence 2 Eye and ear myths are everywhere: square eyes from sitting close to the telly, eyes stuck crossed when the wind changes, glasses that make eyes lazy, torches under the covers that ruin your sight, blind people with super ears. **Who acts:** Eye, wind, glasses, covers, your · **What happens:** be, stick, cross, change, make, ruin · **To what, where:** eyes, sight 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 (Eye, wind, glasses, covers), 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:2 # text = Eye and ear myths are everywhere: square eyes from sitting close to the telly, eyes stuck crossed when the wind changes, glasses that make eyes lazy, torches under the covers that ruin your sight, blind people with super ears. # 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 Eye Eye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sitting sitting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 telly telly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:root 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 torches torch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 covers cover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ruin ruin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 super super ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Eye and ear myths | | | | | square eyes from sitting *obl*; everywhere *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stick** | past · passive | | eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cross** | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | the wind | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | glasses and torches under the covers and blind people with super ears | eyes | | | | lazy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product | | 6 | **ruin** | present | the covers | your sight | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | | 7 | **sight** | | your | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Eyes and ears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/1/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)