Smells that warn, sentence 0
Your nose is an early-warning system: it can pick up tiny amounts of some substances in the air long before you can see anything.
Who acts: nose, you · What happens: be, pick up, see, amount · To what, where: warning system, tiny amounts, air, anything, substances
This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nose | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 system | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 system | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warning | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 early | punct |
| 7 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | compound |
| 8 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 pick | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pick | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pick | aux |
| 12 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 system | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pick | compound:prt |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 amounts | amod |
| 15 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pick | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 substances | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 substances | det |
| 18 | substances | substance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 amounts | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 amounts | nmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 pick | advmod |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pick | advcl |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 system | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your nose | a warning system | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | can | nose | tiny amounts of some substances | the air | long property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic | ||
| 3 | see | can | you | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | amount | some substances | the air | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:0.
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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