Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 14

Fingertips are packed with touch sensors and can feel two points just 2 to 3 millimetres apart, while on the back two points a few centimetres apart can feel like one; that is why blind people read the tiny raised dots of Braille with their fingertips.

Who acts: blind people, back points · What happens: feel, be, read, raise · To what, where: two points, tiny raised dots

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 (blind people, back points), 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	Fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	aux:pass
3	packed	packed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 read	advcl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sensors	case
5	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sensors	compound
6	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feel	aux
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 packed	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 points	nummod
11	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feel	obj
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 millimetres	advmod
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 millimetres	nummod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 3	case
15	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 2	nmod
16	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 apart	obl:unmarked
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 feel	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 points	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 feel	mark
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 back	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 points	compound
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 back	flat
24	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 feel	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 centimetres	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 centimetres	amod
27	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 apart	obl
28	apart	apart	ADV	_	30 feel	advmod
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 feel	aux
30	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feel	advcl
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 feel	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 is	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 why	cop
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	39 read	ccomp
37	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 read	nsubj
39	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 dots	det
41	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dots	amod
42	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 dots	amod
43	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 read	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Braille	case
45	Braille	braille	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 dots	nmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 fingertips	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 fingertips	nmod:poss
48	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 read	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	can	blind people not said here	two points	apart property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
2	feel	can	back points		like one; apart property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like one=Theme
3	is	present	blind people not said here		why property	tree rules
4	read	present	blind people	the tiny raised dots of Braille	with sensors's fingertips	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Topic
5	raise	participle				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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