--- title: Tiny tubes of liquid in your inner ear tell your brain which way you… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny tubes of liquid in your inner ear tell your brain which way you are tilting, and after spinning the liquid keeps moving, which makes you dizzy. Who acts: Tiny tubes, you, liquid. A sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/15/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Balance: the centre of gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/) / 15 # Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 15 Tiny tubes of liquid in your inner ear tell your brain which way you are tilting, and after spinning the liquid keeps moving, which makes you dizzy. **Who acts:** Tiny tubes, you, liquid · **What happens:** tell, tilt, spin, keep, move, make · **To what, where:** way, brain, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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 (Tiny tubes, you, liquid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:15 # text = Tiny tubes of liquid in your inner ear tell your brain which way you are tilting, and after spinning the liquid keeps moving, which makes you dizzy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 12 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 tilting tilt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 after after SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 24 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Tiny tubes of liquid in your inner ear | which way | your brain | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **tilt** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | the liquid *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | the liquid | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | gerund | the liquid *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | | you | | | | dizzy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:physics:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:15`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/14/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/)