The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 13

Smell does a big part of tasting, so with a blocked nose food tastes flat; the tongue itself senses sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury all over, not in separate zones.

Who acts: Smell, food, tongue · What happens: do, block, taste, sense · To what, where: big part, sweet

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology 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 (Smell, food, tongue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tasting	case
7	tasting	tasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flat	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	15 tastes	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 nose	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 nose	det
12	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 nose	amod
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tastes	obl
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tastes	nsubj
15	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
16	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tastes	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 senses	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tongue	det
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 senses	nsubj
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 tongue	nmod:unmarked
21	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	conj
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 senses	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sour	punct
24	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sweet	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 salty	punct
26	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sweet	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bitter	punct
28	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 salty	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 savoury	cc
30	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 salty	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 over	advmod
32	over	over	ADV	_	21 senses	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 zones	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 zones	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 zones	case
36	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 zones	amod
37	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 salty	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Smell	a big part of tasting		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
2	block	participle				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	taste	present	food		with a blocked nose; flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	sense	present	the tongue Part	sweet	over property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus

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, 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:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×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.

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