Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 1
Smell and taste work as a team: when a cold blocks your nose, your dinner tastes of almost nothing, because much of what we call flavour is really smell.
Who acts: Smell, cold, dinner, we, much · What happens: taste, work, block, call, be · To what, where: nose, flavour, smell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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, cold, dinner, we), 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 | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 taste | cc |
| 3 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Smell | conj |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 team | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 team | det |
| 7 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 blocks | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blocks | nsubj |
| 12 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blocks | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tastes | punct |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tastes | nsubj |
| 18 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 blocks | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 nothing | case |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 nothing | advmod |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 tastes | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tastes | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 smell | mark |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 smell | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 much | nmod |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 call | nsubj |
| 28 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | flavour | flavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 call | obj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 smell | cop |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 32 smell | advmod |
| 32 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tastes | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | infinitive | Smell not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | work | present | Smell | as a team | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | block | present | a cold | your nose | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nose=Theme | ||||
| 4 | taste | present | your dinner | of nothing | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | call | present | we | flavour | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flavour=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | much of smell | smell | tree rules |
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:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:1.
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, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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