Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 11
A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a person's.
Who acts: sense, dog · What happens: be, sense · To what, where: smell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 | 12 better | 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 | 12 better | cop |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thousands | amod |
| 9 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 better | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 better | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 person | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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; good 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:world:079-senses-of-animals.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. 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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