The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 13
The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami).
Who acts: tongue · What happens: sense
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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), 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 | 2 tongue | det |
| 2 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sense | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sense | aux |
| 4 | sense | sense | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sense | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 salty | punct |
| 7 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sour | punct |
| 9 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bitter | punct |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 savoury | cc |
| 13 | savoury | savoury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bitter | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 umami | punct |
| 15 | umami | umami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bitter | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 umami | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sense | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sense | can | the tongue | sweet property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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