Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 12
Menthol in mint switches on the nerve sensors that detect cold, so the mouth feels cool though it is not colder.
Who acts: Menthol, nerve sensors, mouth · What happens: switch on, detect, feel, not be · To what, where: nerve sensors
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 (Menthol, nerve sensors, mouth), 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 | Menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 switches | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 mint | case |
| 3 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Menthol | nmod |
| 4 | switches | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 switches | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sensors | det |
| 7 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sensors | compound |
| 8 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 switches | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 detect | nsubj |
| 10 | detect | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sensors | acl:relcl |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 detect | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feels | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 feels | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouth | det |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feels | nsubj |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 switches | conj |
| 17 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feels | xcomp |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 colder | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 colder | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 colder | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 colder | advmod |
| 22 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 cool | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 switches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch on | present | Menthol in mint | the nerve sensors | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | detect | present | the nerve sensors | cold property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | the mouth | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | mouth | cold property | 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:12.
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): no change. 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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