Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 4

Animals push these senses much further: a sniffer dog can smell things hidden in a suitcase, and a cat feels its way through gaps with its whiskers.

Who acts: Animals, sniffer dog, cat · What happens: push, smell, hide, feel · To what, where: senses, things, suitcase, way, gaps

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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 (Animals, sniffer dog, cat), 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	nsubj
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 senses	det
4	senses	sense	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 further	advmod
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 push	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dog	compound
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smell	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 smell	aux
12	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 push	parataxis
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 smell	obj
14	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 things	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 suitcase	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 suitcase	det
17	suitcase	suitcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hidden	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feels	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 feels	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feels	nsubj
22	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 smell	conj
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feels	obj
25	through	through	ADP	_	26 gaps	case
26	gaps	gaps	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feels	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 whiskers	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 whiskers	nmod:poss
29	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feels	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	present	Animals	this senses		far property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
2	smell	can	a sniffer dog	things			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	hide	participle		things not said here	a suitcase		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in suitcase=Location
4	feel	present	a cat	cat's way	gaps	with cat's whiskers	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme through gaps=Location

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:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:4.

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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