--- title: Fingertips are packed with touch sensors and can feel two points jus… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Fingertips are packed with touch sensors and can feel two points just 2 to 3 millimetres apart, while on the back two points a few centimetres apart can feel like one; that is why blind people read the tiny raised dots of Braille with their fingertips. Who acts: blind people, back points. 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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 (blind people, back points), 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:14 # text = Fingertips are packed with touch sensors and can feel two points just 2 to 3 millimetres apart, while on the back two points a few centimetres apart can feel like one; that is why blind people read the tiny raised dots of Braille with their fingertips. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:cop 3 packed packed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked 17 apart apart ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 flat _ _ 24 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 28 apart apart ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 ccomp _ _ 37 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Braille braille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | can | blind people *not said here* | two points | | | | apart *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | can | back points | | | | | like one; apart *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like one=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | blind people *not said here* | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **read** | present | blind people | the tiny raised dots of Braille | | | | with sensors's fingertips | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Topic | | 5 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/13/) - next →: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/)