--- title: Dogs sniff in short bursts that carry smells to a special part of th… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs sniff in short bursts that carry smells to a special part of the nose, and they can tell which nostril a smell entered, which helps them find where it comes from. Who acts: Dogs, short bursts, smells, 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 (Dogs, short bursts, smells, 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:9 # text = Dogs sniff in short bursts that carry smells to a special part of the nose, and they can tell which nostril a smell entered, which helps them find where it comes from. # 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 ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sniff sniff VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 21 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 nostril nostril NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl:relcl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 33 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **sniff** | present | Dogs | | | | | in short bursts | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in burst=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | present | short bursts | smells | | a special part of the nose | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to part=Destination | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | smells *= smell* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **enter** | past | a smell | which nostril | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nostril=Destination | | 5 | **help** | present | a smell | smells *= smell* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **find** | infinitive | smells *= smell* *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **come** | present | nose | | | | | | 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:9`. **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 ×2. **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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