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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smell, food, tongue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:13 # text = Smell does a big part of tasting, so with a blocked nose food tastes flat; the tongue itself senses sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury all over, not in separate zones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tasting tasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 blocked block VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 senses sense VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=22:punct 24 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct 26 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 savoury savoury ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 31 all all ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 over over ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Smell | a big part of tasting | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | | 2 | **block** | participle | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **taste** | present | food | | | | | with a blocked nose; flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sense** | present | the tongue Part | sweet | | | | over *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sweet=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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