--- title: Much of flavour is smell: when the nose is blocked, food smells cann… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Much of flavour is smell: when the nose is blocked, food smells cannot reach the smell cells at the back of the nose, so food seems to taste of nothing. Who acts: Much, food smells, food. 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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 (Much, food smells, food), 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:6 # text = Much of flavour is smell: when the nose is blocked, food smells cannot reach the smell cells at the back of the nose, so food seems to taste of nothing. # 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): no change 1 Much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 flavour flavour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 blocked block VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Much of flavour | smell | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **block** | present · passive | | the nose | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **reach** | can | food smells | the smell cells | | the back of the nose | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cell=Theme at back=Asset | | 4 | **seem** | present | food | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **taste** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* | | | | | of nothing | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/5/) - next →: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/)