How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 8

A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell sensors and smells many thousands of times better than ours, so it can find a biscuit inside a closed bag in a backpack.

Who acts: nose · What happens: have, smell, find, close · To what, where: hundreds, many thousands, biscuit, closed bag

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 (nose), 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 sensors	case
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sensors	compound
11	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 millions	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smells	cc
13	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thousands	amod
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 smells	obl:unmarked
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 times	case
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thousands	nmod
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 smells	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ours	case
20	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 better	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 find	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 biscuit	det
27	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obj
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	31 bag	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bag	det
30	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 bag	amod
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 backpack	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 backpack	det
34	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a dog's nose	hundreds of millions of smell sensors			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
2	smell	present	a dog's nose not said here	many thousands of times		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	find	can	nose	a biscuit	a closed bag	in a backpack	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Topic
4	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:8.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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