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title: You smell cookies baking from the other room because tiny invisible… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: You smell cookies baking from the other room because tiny invisible bits of the cookies have floated through the air, up your nose, and landed on smell cells that tell your brain «cookies!». Who acts: You, cookies, tiny invisible bits, smell cells. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and 
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 0

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You smell cookies baking from the other room because tiny invisible bits of the cookies have floated through the air, up your nose, and landed on smell cells that tell your brain «cookies!».

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**Who acts:** You, cookies, tiny invisible bits, smell cells · **What happens:** smell, bake, float, land, tell · **To what, where:** cookies, other room, air, smell cells, brain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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 (You, cookies, tiny invisible bits, smell cells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:0
# text = You smell cookies baking from the other room because tiny invisible bits of the cookies have floated through the air, up your nose, and landed on smell cells that tell your brain «cookies!».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	iobj	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | present | You | cookies |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cookie=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bake** | gerund | cookies *not said here* |  |  | the other room |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from room=Material |
| 3 | **float** | present · perfect | tiny invisible bits of the cookies |  |  | the air |  | up your nose | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through air=Source up nose=Trajectory |
| 4 | **land** | participle | tiny invisible bits of the cookies *not said here* |  |  | smell cells |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cell=Destination |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | smell cells | cookies | your brain |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient cookie=Topic |

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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): 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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