Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 8

Taste buds sense five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami, the savoury taste of cheese and tomatoes; many poisons taste bitter, so bitterness can warn us.

Who acts: Taste buds, many poisons, bitterness · What happens: sense, taste, warn · To what, where: five basic tastes, us, cheese

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 (Taste buds, many poisons, bitterness), 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	Taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buds	compound
2	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sense	nsubj
3	sense	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tastes	nummod
5	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tastes	amod
6	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sense	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sweet	punct
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tastes	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 salty	punct
10	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sweet	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sour	punct
12	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tastes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bitter	punct
14	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tastes	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 umami	cc
16	umami	umami	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	14 bitter	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taste	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 taste	det
19	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 taste	amod
20	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 umami	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 cheese	case
22	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taste	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tomatoes	cc
24	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cheese	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 taste	punct
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 poisons	amod
27	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taste	nsubj
28	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sense	parataxis
29	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 taste	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 warn	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 warn	advmod
32	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 warn	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 warn	aux
34	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 taste	conj
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 warn	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sense	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sense	present	Taste buds	five basic tastes			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer taste=Stimulus
2	taste	present	many poisons			bitter property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	warn speech: warn	can	bitterness		us		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
4	taste			cheese and tomatoes			nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:8.

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 ×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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