How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 3

It sniffs in short quick bursts that carry smells to a special part of its nose, and it can even tell which nostril a smell came into.

Who acts: dog, short quick bursts, smell · What happens: sniff, carry, tell, come · To what, where: smells, special part, nostril · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (dog, short quick bursts, smell), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffs	nsubj
2	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 bursts	case
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bursts	amod
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bursts	amod
6	bursts	burst	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sniffs	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carry	nsubj
8	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bursts	acl:relcl
9	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 part	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 part	det
12	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 part	amod
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 nose	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nose	nmod:poss
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 part	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sniffs	conj
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	24 nostril	det
24	nostril	nostril	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 smell	det
26	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	27 came	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sniffs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sniff	present	dog			in short quick bursts	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in burst=Theme
2	carry	present	short quick bursts	smells	a special part of dog's nose		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to part=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	can	dog				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	a smell	which nostril			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:3.

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. 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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