Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 3
Your skin is your biggest sense organ, with sensors for touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain, and some tricks fool them: a chilli feels hot though it is not, and mint feels cold though it is not.
Who acts: skin, tricks, chilli, mint · What happens: be, fool, feel, not be · To what, where: biggest sense organ, touch
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, tricks, chilli, mint), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 organ | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 organ | nmod:poss |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 organ | amod |
| 6 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | compound |
| 7 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sensors | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sensors | case |
| 10 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 organ | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 touch | case |
| 12 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sensors | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pressure | punct |
| 14 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heat | punct |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sensors | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cold | punct |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sensors | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pain | cc |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sensors | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fool | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fool | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 tricks | det |
| 24 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fool | nsubj |
| 25 | fool | fool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 organ | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fool | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 feels | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chilli | det |
| 29 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 feels | nsubj |
| 30 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 organ | parataxis |
| 31 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 feels | xcomp |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 is | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 is | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 feels | advcl |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 is | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 feels | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 feels | cc |
| 38 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feels | nsubj |
| 39 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 feels | conj |
| 40 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 feels | xcomp |
| 41 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 is | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 is | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 feels | advcl |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 is | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 organ | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your skin | your biggest sense organ | with sensors for touch and pressure and heat and cold and pain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fool | present | some tricks | touch | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | a chilli | hot property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not be | present | chilli | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | mint | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not be | present | mint | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×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.
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