Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 9
The tongue map with sweet at the tip and bitter at the back came from a 1901 German study that was mistranslated; every taste can be sensed wherever there are taste buds.
Who acts: tongue map, taste buds · What happens: come, mistranslate, sense, be · To what, where: 1901 German study, taste
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (tongue map, taste buds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 map | det |
| 2 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 map | compound |
| 3 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sweet | case |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 map | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 tip | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tip | det |
| 8 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweet | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bitter | cc |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tip | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 back | det |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bitter | obl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 study | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 study | det |
| 17 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 study | nummod |
| 18 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 study | amod |
| 19 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 mistranslated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mistranslated | aux:pass |
| 22 | mistranslated | mistranslate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 study | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sensed | punct |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 taste | det |
| 25 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sensed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sensed | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sensed | aux:pass |
| 28 | sensed | sense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 mistranslated | parataxis |
| 29 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 are | advmod |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 are | expl |
| 31 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sensed | advcl |
| 32 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 buds | compound |
| 33 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 are | nsubj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the tongue map with sweet | a 1901 German study | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from study=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mistranslate | past · passive | a 1901 German study | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sense | can · passive | every taste | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | does | present | taste buds | there | wherever property | 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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:9.
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, 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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