--- title: It sniffs in short quick bursts that carry smells to a special part… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: It sniffs in short quick bursts that carry smells to a special part of its nose, and it can even tell which nostril a smell came into. Who acts: dog, short quick bursts, smell. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, short quick bursts, smell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:3 # text = It sniffs in short quick bursts that carry smells to a special part of its nose, and it can even tell which nostril a smell came into. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.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 ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 23 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ _ 24 nostril nostril NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | present | dog | | | | | in short quick bursts | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in burst=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | present | short quick bursts | smells | | a special part of dog's nose | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to part=Destination | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | dog | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | a smell | which nostril | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/2/) - next →: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/)