Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 6

Much of flavour is smell: when the nose is blocked, food smells cannot reach the smell cells at the back of the nose, so food seems to taste of nothing.

Who acts: Much, food smells, food · What happens: be, block, not reach, seem, taste · To what, where: smell, nose, smell cells, back

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 (Much, food smells, food), 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	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smell	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 flavour	case
3	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Much	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smell	cop
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 smell	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 blocked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nose	det
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blocked	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blocked	aux:pass
11	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 reach	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reach	punct
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smells	compound
14	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reach	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 reach	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 reach	advmod
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smell	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cells	det
19	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cells	compound
20	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reach	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 back	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reach	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 nose	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nose	det
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seems	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 seems	advmod
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seems	nsubj
30	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reach	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 taste	mark
32	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 seems	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 taste	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Much of flavour	smell			tree rules
2	block	present · passive		the nose			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not reach	can	food smells	the smell cells	the back of the nose		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cell=Theme at back=Asset
4	seem	present	food				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	taste	to-infinitive	food not said here			of nothing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:6.

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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