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title: The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami). — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics
description: The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami). Who acts: tongue. 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 13

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The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami).

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**Who acts:** tongue · **What happens:** sense

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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 (tongue), 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:13
# text = The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami).
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sense	sense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	umami	umami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sense** | can | the tongue |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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