Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 13

A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of scent cells, while yours has only a few million, so a dog can follow a trail you cannot even notice.

Who acts: nose, yours, dog, you · What happens: have, follow, not notice · To what, where: hundreds, few million, trail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (nose, yours, dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 millions	case
8	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cells	case
10	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cells	compound
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 millions	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 has	mark
14	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	advcl
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 million	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 million	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 million	amod
19	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 has	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 follow	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 follow	aux
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 trail	det
27	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 notice	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 notice	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 notice	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 notice	advmod
32	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trail	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	a dog's nose	hundreds of millions of scent cells	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
2	have	present	yours	a few million	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Patient
3	follow	can	a dog	a trail	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
4	not notice	can	you	a trail not said here	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trail=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, 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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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