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title: The skin has several kinds of touch sensors: some feel light touch,… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: The skin has several kinds of touch sensors: some feel light touch, some pressure, some vibration and some stretching, which is how we tell silk from sandpaper. Who acts: skin, some, pressure. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 13

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The skin has several kinds of touch sensors: some feel light touch, some pressure, some vibration and some stretching, which is how we tell silk from sandpaper.

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**Who acts:** skin, some, pressure · **What happens:** have, feel, be · **To what, where:** several kinds, sandpaper

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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 (skin, some, pressure), 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:13
# text = The skin has several kinds of touch sensors: some feel light touch, some pressure, some vibration and some stretching, which is how we tell silk from sandpaper.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	feel	feel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	vibration	vibration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	stretching	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sandpaper	sandpaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the skin | several kinds of touch sensors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | some pressure and some vibration and some stretching |  |  | sandpaper |  | tell *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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