--- title: Smells are tiny bits of a substance floating in the air; they land o… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Smells are tiny bits of a substance floating in the air; they land on smell cells high inside the nose, which send signals to the brain. Who acts: Smells, substance, Animals, smell cells. 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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 (Smells, substance, Animals, 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:5 # text = Smells are tiny bits of a substance floating in the air; they land on smell cells high inside the nose, which send signals to the brain. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 inside inside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl 25 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Smells | tiny bits | | | | of a substance | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | gerund | a substance *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 3 | **land** | present | Animals *= animal* | | | smell cells inside the nose | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cell=Destination | | 4 | **send** | present | smell cells inside the nose | signals | | the brain | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to brain=Destination | 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:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/4/) - next →: [Senses: nose, tongue and skin, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/)