--- title: Dogs are trained to smell ivory and rhino horn at airports and in pa… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs are trained to smell ivory and rhino horn at airports and in parks, and some find tiny rare animals for scientists; a dog's nose is thousands of times better than ours. Who acts: Dogs, some, nose. 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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, some, nose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:11 # text = Dogs are trained to smell ivory and rhino horn at airports and in parks, and some find tiny rare animals for scientists; a dog's nose is thousands of times better than ours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 airports airport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **train** | present · passive | | Dogs | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **smell** | to-infinitive | Dogs *not said here* | ivory and rhino horn | | airports and parks | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ivory=Theme at airport=Location | | 3 | **find** | present | some | tiny rare animals | | | | for scientists | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent animal=Theme for scientist=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is a** | present | a dog's nose | thousands | | | time | | 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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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