--- title: Real rats have a superb sense of smell and taste, and they learn whi… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics description: Real rats have a superb sense of smell and taste, and they learn which foods are safe by smelling the breath of other rats. Who acts: Real rats, rats, foods. A sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/12/) [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/) / [Rats and mice in the city, and the ele…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/) / 12 # Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 12 Real rats have a superb sense of smell and taste, and they learn which foods are safe by smelling the breath of other rats. **Who acts:** Real rats, rats, foods · **What happens:** have, learn, be, smell, sense · **To what, where:** superb sense, breath, smell · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (Real rats, rats, foods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:12 # text = Real rats have a superb sense of smell and taste, and they learn which foods are safe by smelling the breath of other rats. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 superb superb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 16 det _ _ 16 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 smelling smell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . 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 | **have** | present | Real rats | a superb sense of smell and taste | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | | 2 | **learn** | present | rats *= rat* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | which foods | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **smell** | gerund | which foods *not said here* | the breath of other rats | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus | | 5 | **sense** | | | smell and taste | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:12`. **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. 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