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title: A dog's nose is wet with a thin layer of mucus that catches smell pa… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog's nose is wet with a thin layer of mucus that catches smell particles, and every dog's nose print is unique. Who acts: nose, thin layer, nose print, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Wolves and dogs, sentence 11

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A dog's nose is wet with a thin layer of mucus that catches smell particles, and every dog's nose print is unique.

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**Who acts:** nose, thin layer, nose print, dog · **What happens:** be, catch, print · **To what, where:** smell particles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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, thin layer, nose print, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:11
# text = A dog's nose is wet with a thin layer of mucus that catches smell particles, and every dog's nose print is unique.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 024-wolves-and-dogs.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	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	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mucus	mucus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a dog's nose |  |  |  |  | with a thin layer of mucus; wet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present | a thin layer of mucus | smell particles |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | every dog's nose print |  |  |  |  | unique *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **print** |  | every dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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