--- title: Smell and taste work as a team: when a cold blocks your nose, your d… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Smell and taste work as a team: when a cold blocks your nose, your dinner tastes of almost nothing, because much of what we call flavour is really smell. Who acts: Smell, cold, dinner, we. 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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, cold, dinner, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:1 # text = Smell and taste work as a team: when a cold blocks your nose, your dinner tastes of almost nothing, because much of what we call flavour is really smell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:PronType=Ind 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nmod _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 flavour flavour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **taste** | infinitive | Smell *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **work** | present | Smell | | | | | as a team | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute | | 3 | **block** | present | a cold | your nose | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nose=Theme | | 4 | **taste** | present | your dinner | | | | | of nothing | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **call** | present | we | flavour | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flavour=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | much of smell | smell | | | | | tree rules | 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:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/0/) - next →: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/)