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title: The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics
description: The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Who acts: five senses. A sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 12

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The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

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**Who acts:** five senses · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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 (five senses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:12
# text = The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 034-brain-nerves-senses.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the five senses | sight and hearing and smell and taste and touch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:12`.

**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/).

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