Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 6
Description uses the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; many writers only use sight.
Who acts: Description, many writers · What happens: use · To what, where: five senses, sight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the english 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 (Description, many writers), 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 | Description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 senses | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 senses | nummod |
| 5 | senses | sense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 uses | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 sight | punct |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 senses | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearing | punct |
| 9 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smell | punct |
| 11 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 senses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taste | punct |
| 13 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 senses | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 touch | cc |
| 15 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taste | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 use | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 writers | amod |
| 18 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 use | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 use | advmod |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 uses | parataxis |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Description | the five senses and smell and taste and touch | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | present | many writers | sight | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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