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title: Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of s… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of smell cells, sniffs five to ten times a second and can smell a person buried under a metre of snow. Who acts: secret weapon, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the biology course
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 1

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Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of smell cells, sniffs five to ten times a second and can smell a person buried under a metre of snow.

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**Who acts:** secret weapon, dog · **What happens:** be, have, sniff, smell, bury · **To what, where:** nose, hundreds, person, metre

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» 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 (secret weapon, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:1
# text = Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of smell cells, sniffs five to ten times a second and can smell a person buried under a metre of snow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sniffs	sniff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | pups's secret weapon | the nose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | a dog | hundreds of millions of smell cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |
| 3 | **sniff** | present | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **smell** | can | a dog *not said here* | a person |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bury** | participle |  | a person *not said here* |  | a metre of snow |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under metre=Destination |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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