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title: Divers equalise their ears (even out the push inside them, for examp… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: Divers equalise their ears (even out the push inside them, for example by pinching the nose and blowing gently) as they go down, and come up slowly, because shooting up fast can badly hurt them. Who acts: Divers, ears, shooting. A sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics co
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# Water safety and the ocean, sentence 6

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Divers equalise their ears (even out the push inside them, for example by pinching the nose and blowing gently) as they go down, and come up slowly, because shooting up fast can badly hurt them.

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**Who acts:** Divers, ears, shooting · **What happens:** equalise, pinch, blow, go down, come up, shoot up · **To what, where:** ears, nose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 (Divers, ears, shooting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:6
# text = Divers equalise their ears (even out the push inside them, for example by pinching the nose and blowing gently) as they go down, and come up slowly, because shooting up fast can badly hurt them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	equalise	equalise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
20	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	csubj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
39	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **equalise** | present | Divers | divers's ears and the push inside ears |  |  |  | for example | tree rules |
| 2 | **pinch** | gerund | Divers *not said here* | the nose |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund | Divers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go down** | present | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **come up** | infinitive | Divers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hurt** | can | shooting | ears *= ear* |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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