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title: Animals push these senses much further: a sniffer dog can smell thin… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals push these senses much further: a sniffer dog can smell things hidden in a suitcase, and a cat feels its way through gaps with its whiskers. Who acts: Animals, sniffer dog, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 4

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Animals push these senses much further: a sniffer dog can smell things hidden in a suitcase, and a cat feels its way through gaps with its whiskers.

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**Who acts:** Animals, sniffer dog, cat · **What happens:** push, smell, hide, feel · **To what, where:** senses, things, suitcase, way, gaps

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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 (Animals, sniffer dog, cat), 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:4
# text = Animals push these senses much further: a sniffer dog can smell things hidden in a suitcase, and a cat feels its way through gaps with its whiskers.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	suitcase	suitcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gaps	gaps	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **push** | present | Animals | this senses |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | can | a sniffer dog | things |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  | a suitcase |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in suitcase=Location |
| 4 | **feel** | present | a cat | cat's way |  | gaps |  | with cat's whiskers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme through gaps=Location |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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