--- title: A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell sensors and smells ma… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell sensors and smells many thousands of times better than ours, so it can find a biscuit inside a closed bag in a backpack. Who acts: nose. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's pri --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 8 A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell sensors and smells many thousands of times better than ours, so it can find a biscuit inside a closed bag in a backpack. **Who acts:** nose · **What happens:** have, smell, find, close · **To what, where:** hundreds, many thousands, biscuit, closed bag 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 (nose), 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:8 # text = A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell sensors and smells many thousands of times better than ours, so it can find a biscuit inside a closed bag in a backpack. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 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 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 inside inside ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 backpack backpack NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | 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 sensors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | | 2 | **smell** | present | a dog's nose *not said here* | many thousands of times | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **find** | can | nose | a biscuit | | a closed bag | | in a backpack | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Topic | | 4 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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