Thinking about noticing, sentence 8

A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times more sensitive than a person's.

Who acts: sense, dog · What happens: be, sense · To what, where: smell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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 (sense, dog), 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 sense	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sensitive	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smell	case
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sensitive	cop
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thousands	amod
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sensitive	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 times	case
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 sensitive	advmod
13	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 person	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sensitive	obl
17	's	's	PART	_	16 person	case
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sensitive	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a dog's sense of smell					than a person; many thousands of times obl; sensitive property	tree rules
2	sense		a dog	smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:8.

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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