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title: Dogs can smell sweat and skin smells we cannot notice, each person h… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs can smell sweat and skin smells we cannot notice, each person has their own smell, and trained dogs have been reported in research to sniff out some illnesses. Who acts: Dogs, we, person, smells. A sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biol
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 16

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Dogs can smell sweat and skin smells we cannot notice, each person has their own smell, and trained dogs have been reported in research to sniff out some illnesses.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, we, person, smells · **What happens:** smell, not notice, have, train, report, sniff out · **To what, where:** sweat, skin smells, own smell, trained dogs, research, illnesses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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 (Dogs, we, person, smells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.lesson:16
# text = Dogs can smell sweat and skin smells we cannot notice, each person has their own smell, and trained dogs have been reported in research to sniff out some illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Dogs | sweat and skin smells |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | can | we | skin smells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | each person | smells's own smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 4 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **report** | present · perfect · passive |  | trained dogs |  | research |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **sniff out** | to-infinitive |  | some illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme |
| 7 | **smell** |  | smells *= smell* |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: 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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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