--- title: Its ears catch sounds too high or too quiet for us, which is why it… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Its ears catch sounds too high or too quiet for us, which is why it runs to the door when the family car is still far down the road. Who acts: ears, nostril, family car. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/) / 4 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 4 Its ears catch sounds too high or too quiet for us, which is why it runs to the door when the family car is still far down the road. **Who acts:** ears, nostril, family car · **What happens:** catch, be, run · **To what, where:** sounds This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (ears, nostril, family car), 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:4 # text = Its ears catch sounds too high or too quiet for us, which is why it runs to the door when the family car is still far down the road. # 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): no change 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 28 down down ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **catch** | present | nostril's ears | sounds | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | present | nostril | | | | | to the door *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | | 4 | **is** | present | the family car | | | | still | down the road; far *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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. 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/3/) - next →: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/)