Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 11
Dogs are trained to smell ivory and rhino horn at airports and in parks, and some find tiny rare animals for scientists; a dog's nose is thousands of times better than ours.
Who acts: Dogs, some, nose · What happens: train, smell, find, be · To what, where: Dogs, ivory, airports, tiny rare animals, thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 (Dogs, some, 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trained | aux:pass |
| 3 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 smell | mark |
| 5 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trained | xcomp |
| 6 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smell | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horn | cc |
| 8 | rhino | rhino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horn | compound |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ivory | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 airports | case |
| 11 | airports | airport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 parks | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 parks | case |
| 14 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 airports | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 find | nsubj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trained | conj |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 20 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 find | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 scientists | case |
| 23 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 find | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 thousands | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dog | det |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nose | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 dog | case |
| 28 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thousands | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thousands | cop |
| 30 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trained | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 times | case |
| 32 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thousands | nmod |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 thousands | amod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 ours | case |
| 35 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 better | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present · passive | Dogs | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | smell | to-infinitive | Dogs not said here | ivory and rhino horn | airports and parks | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ivory=Theme at airport=Location | |||
| 3 | find | present | some | tiny rare animals | for scientists | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent animal=Theme for scientist=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a dog's nose | thousands | time | tree rules |
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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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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