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title: The inner ear has fluid that tells the brain how the head is moving;… — Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics · tree and pragmatics
description: The inner ear has fluid that tells the brain how the head is moving; after spinning, the fluid keeps moving and you feel dizzy. Who acts: inner ear, fluid, head, you. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 19

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The inner ear has fluid that tells the brain how the head is moving; after spinning, the fluid keeps moving and you feel dizzy.

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**Who acts:** inner ear, fluid, head, you · **What happens:** have, tell, move, spin, keep, feel · **To what, where:** fluid, brain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» of the world 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 (inner ear, fluid, head, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:19
# text = The inner ear has fluid that tells the brain how the head is moving; after spinning, the fluid keeps moving and you feel dizzy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | present | the inner ear | fluid |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluid=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | fluid | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move** | present · progressive | the head |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** | gerund | the fluid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the fluid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **move** | gerund | the fluid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **feel** | present | you |  |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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