--- title: Taste buds sense five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and u… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Taste buds sense five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami, the savoury taste of cheese and tomatoes; many poisons taste bitter, so bitterness can warn us. Who acts: Taste buds, many poisons, bitterness. 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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 (Taste buds, many poisons, bitterness), 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:8 # text = Taste buds sense five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami, the savoury taste of cheese and tomatoes; many poisons taste bitter, so bitterness can warn us. # 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 ×2 1 Taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sense sense VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 basic basic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tastes taste NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 umami umami NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 savoury savoury ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 29 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 bitterness bitterness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sense** | present | Taste buds | five basic tastes | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer taste=Stimulus | | 2 | **taste** | present | many poisons | | | | | bitter *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | can | bitterness | | us | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | | 4 | **taste** | | | cheese and tomatoes | | | | | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:8`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/7/) - next →: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/)