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title: The «tongue map», with sweet only at the tip and bitter only at the… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: The «tongue map», with sweet only at the tip and bitter only at the back, is a myth; all parts of the tongue with taste buds can taste all five tastes. Who acts: map », myth. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 9

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The «tongue map», with sweet only at the tip and bitter only at the back, is a myth; all parts of the tongue with taste buds can taste all five tastes.

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**Who acts:** map », myth · **What happens:** be, taste · **To what, where:** myth, five tastes

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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 (map », myth), 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:9
# text = The «tongue map», with sweet only at the tip and bitter only at the back, is a myth; all parts of the tongue with taste buds can taste all five tastes.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 | « map » | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | can | a myth | five tastes |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme taste=Attribute |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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