Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 13

The skin has several kinds of touch sensors: some feel light touch, some pressure, some vibration and some stretching, which is how we tell silk from sandpaper.

Who acts: skin, some, pressure · What happens: have, feel, be · To what, where: several kinds, sandpaper

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 (skin, some, pressure), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sensors	case
7	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sensors	compound
8	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kinds	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 touch	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	compound
12	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 touch	amod
13	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pressure	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 pressure	det
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vibration	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 vibration	det
19	vibration	vibration	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressure	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stretching	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 stretching	det
22	stretching	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressure	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tell	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	cop
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 tell	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pressure	conj
29	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 sandpaper	case
31	sandpaper	sandpaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the skin	several kinds of touch sensors			tree rules
2	feel		some				tree rules
3	is	present	some pressure and some vibration and some stretching		sandpaper	tell 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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