Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 5

Smells are tiny bits of a substance floating in the air; they land on smell cells high inside the nose, which send signals to the brain.

Who acts: Smells, substance, Animals, smell cells · What happens: be, float, land, send · To what, where: tiny bits, air, smell cells, signals, brain

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 (Smells, substance, Animals, smell cells), 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	Smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bits	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bits	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bits	amod
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 substance	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 substance	det
7	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bits	nmod
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 substance	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floating	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 land	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 land	nsubj
14	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bits	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 cells	case
16	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cells	compound
17	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 land	obl
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cells	amod
19	inside	inside	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nose	det
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cells	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 send	nsubj
24	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cells	acl:relcl
25	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 send	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 brain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brain	det
28	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 send	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Smells	tiny bits		of a substance	tree rules
2	float	gerund	a substance not said here		the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
3	land	present	Animals = animal		smell cells inside the nose		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cell=Destination
4	send	present	smell cells inside the nose	signals	the brain		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to brain=Destination

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:5.

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. 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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