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title: Your skin is your biggest sense organ, with sensors for touch, press… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Your skin is your biggest sense organ, with sensors for touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain, and some tricks fool them: a chilli feels hot though it is not, and mint feels cold though it is not. Who acts: skin, tricks, chilli, mint. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the bi
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 3

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Your skin is your biggest sense organ, with sensors for touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain, and some tricks fool them: a chilli feels hot though it is not, and mint feels cold though it is not.

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**Who acts:** skin, tricks, chilli, mint · **What happens:** be, fool, feel, not be · **To what, where:** biggest sense organ, touch

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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, tricks, chilli, mint), 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:3
# text = Your skin is your biggest sense organ, with sensors for touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain, and some tricks fool them: a chilli feels hot though it is not, and mint feels cold though it is not.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fool	fool	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Your skin | your biggest sense organ |  |  |  | with sensors for touch and pressure and heat and cold and pain | tree rules |
| 2 | **fool** | present | some tricks | touch |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a chilli |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **be** | present | chilli |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | present | mint |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **be** | present | mint |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`.

**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 ×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/).

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