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title: But two myths can really hurt: looking at the Sun during an eclipse… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: But two myths can really hurt: looking at the Sun during an eclipse can burn the back of your eye without any pain, and loud music can damage your hearing without hurting, and that damage does not grow back. Who acts: two myths, looking, loud music, damage. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» o
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# Eyes and ears, sentence 4

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But two myths can really hurt: looking at the Sun during an eclipse can burn the back of your eye without any pain, and loud music can damage your hearing without hurting, and that damage does not grow back.

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**Who acts:** two myths, looking, loud music, damage, your · **What happens:** hurt, look, burn, damage, not grow back, hear · **To what, where:** back, hearing

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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 myths, looking, loud music, damage), 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:4
# text = But two myths can really hurt: looking at the Sun during an eclipse can burn the back of your eye without any pain, and loud music can damage your hearing without hurting, and that damage does not grow back.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | can | two myths |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | during a eclipse | at the Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | can | looking | the back of your eye |  |  |  | without any pain | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 4 | **damage** | can | loud music | your hearing |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | gerund | loud music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **grow back** | present · do-support | that damage |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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.

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