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title: A dog has around 200 to 300 million smell cells against our roughly… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog has around 200 to 300 million smell cells against our roughly 5 to 6 million, and a big part of its brain works on smells, so sniffer dogs can find hidden things in bags. Who acts: dog, big part, sniffer dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mo
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 7

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A dog has around 200 to 300 million smell cells against our roughly 5 to 6 million, and a big part of its brain works on smells, so sniffer dogs can find hidden things in bags.

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**Who acts:** dog, big part, sniffer dogs · **What happens:** have, work, find · **To what, where:** million smell cells, hidden things, bags

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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 (dog, big part, sniffer dogs), 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:7
# text = A dog has around 200 to 300 million smell cells against our roughly 5 to 6 million, and a big part of its brain works on smells, so sniffer dogs can find hidden things in bags.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
13	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a dog | million smell cells |  |  |  | against our 5 million | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present | a big part of dog's brain |  |  |  |  | on smells | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on smell=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | can | sniffer dogs | hidden things |  | bags |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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**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:7`.

**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.

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

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