Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 7

A dog has around 200 to 300 million smell cells against our roughly 5 to 6 million, and a big part of its brain works on smells, so sniffer dogs can find hidden things in bags.

Who acts: dog, big part, sniffer dogs · What happens: have, work, find · To what, where: million smell cells, hidden things, bags

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 (dog, big part, sniffer 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	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
5	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 300	case
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 200	nmod
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cells	nummod
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cells	compound
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
11	against	against	ADP	_	17 million	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 million	nmod:poss
13	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	17 million	advmod
14	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 million	compound
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 6	case
16	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 5	nmod
17	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cells	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 works	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 works	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 works	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 brain	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brain	nmod:poss
25	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 smells	case
28	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 works	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	34 find	advmod
31	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dogs	compound
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 find	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 works	conj
35	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 find	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 bags	case
38	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 find	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a dog	million smell cells		against our 5 million	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	work	present	a big part of dog's brain			on smells	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on smell=Theme
3	find	can	sniffer dogs	hidden things	bags		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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:7.

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): no change. 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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