--- title: Other dogs leave scent marks with urine (wee) on lamp posts that tel… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Other dogs leave scent marks with urine (wee) on lamp posts that tell who passed, how long ago, and whether they were male or female. Who acts: Other dogs, lamp posts, marks. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 7 Other dogs leave scent marks with urine (wee) on lamp posts that tell who passed, how long ago, and whether they were male or female. **Who acts:** Other dogs, lamp posts, marks · **What happens:** leave, tell, pass, be · **To what, where:** scent marks, lamp posts · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Other dogs, lamp posts, marks), 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:7 # text = Other dogs leave scent marks with urine (wee) on lamp posts that tell who passed, how long ago, and whether they were male or female. # 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 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 urine urine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | Other dogs | scent marks | | lamp posts | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on post=Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | lamp posts | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pass** | past | | | | | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | marks *= mark* | | | | | male *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | marks *= mark* *not said here* | | | | | | 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:7`. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/6/) - next →: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/)