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title: A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, the smell part… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, the smell part of its brain is huge compared with ours, it sniffs about five to ten times a second, and its nose keeps smelling air apart from breathing air. Who acts: nose, smell part, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 7

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A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, the smell part of its brain is huge compared with ours, it sniffs about five to ten times a second, and its nose keeps smelling air apart from breathing air.

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**Who acts:** nose, smell part, dog · **What happens:** have, be, compare, sniff, keep, smell · **To what, where:** hundreds, air

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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 (nose, smell part, 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:7
# text = A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, the smell part of its brain is huge compared with ours, it sniffs about five to ten times a second, and its nose keeps smelling air apart from breathing air.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sniffs	sniff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case
30	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advmod
42	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	advcl	_	_
44	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a dog's nose | hundreds of millions of smell cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the smell part of dog's brain |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **compare** | participle | the smell part of dog's brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ours | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with our=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **sniff** | present | dog |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | present | dog's nose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smell** | gerund | dog's nose *not said here* | air |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus |
| 7 | **breathe** | gerund | dog's nose *not said here* | air |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |

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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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**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 ×3. **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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