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title: The bumps on the tongue are papillae, and many of them hold taste bu… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: The bumps on the tongue are papillae, and many of them hold taste buds; an adult has about 2,000 to 10,000 taste buds, and they are replaced about every week or two. Who acts: bumps, many, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school 
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 10

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The bumps on the tongue are papillae, and many of them hold taste buds; an adult has about 2,000 to 10,000 taste buds, and they are replaced about every week or two.

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**Who acts:** bumps, many, adult · **What happens:** be, hold, have, replace · **To what, where:** papillae, taste buds, 2,000 taste buds, buds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology 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 (bumps, many, adult), 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:10
# text = The bumps on the tongue are papillae, and many of them hold taste buds; an adult has about 2,000 to 10,000 taste buds, and they are replaced about every week or two.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	papillae	papilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
14	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the bumps on the tongue | papillae |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | many of bumps | taste buds |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | a adult | 2,000 taste buds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Patient |
| 4 | **replace** | present · passive |  | buds *= bud* |  |  | week |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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): 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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