Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 11

A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, and a lamp-post tells it which dogs passed and how recently.

Who acts: nose, lamp post, dogs · What happens: have, tell, pass · To what, where: hundreds, nose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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, lamp post, dogs), 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	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cells	compound
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 millions	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tells	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 post	det
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 post	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 lamp	punct
17	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tells	nsubj
18	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tells	obj
20	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	21 dogs	det
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 passed	nsubj
22	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tells	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 recently	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 recently	advmod
25	recently	recently	ADV	_	22 passed	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	a dog's nose	hundreds of millions of smell cells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	a lamp post		nose	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pass	past	which dogs			vn occur-48.3-1 «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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:11.

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, 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.

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