Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 1

Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of smell cells, sniffs five to ten times a second and can smell a person buried under a metre of snow.

Who acts: secret weapon, dog · What happens: be, have, sniff, smell, bury · To what, where: nose, hundreds, person, metre

This is a sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» 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 (secret weapon, dog), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weapon	nmod:poss
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weapon	amod
3	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nose	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nose	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nose	det
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 nose	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nose	parataxis
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 millions	case
13	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hundreds	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cells	case
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cells	compound
16	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 millions	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sniffs	punct
18	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 ten	case
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sniffs	obl:unmarked
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 second	det
24	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 times	nmod:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smell	cc
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 smell	aux
27	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 has	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 person	det
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smell	obj
30	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 person	acl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 metre	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 metre	det
33	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 buried	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 snow	case
35	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 metre	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nose	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	pups's secret weapon	the nose			tree rules
2	have	present	a dog	hundreds of millions of smell cells			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
3	sniff	present	a dog not said here			time	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smell	can	a dog not said here	a person			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
5	bury	participle		a person not said here	a metre of snow		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under metre=Destination

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:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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