--- title: Your nose is an early-warning system: it can pick up tiny amounts of… — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics description: Your nose is an early-warning system: it can pick up tiny amounts of some substances in the air long before you can see anything. Who acts: nose, you. 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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 (nose, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:0 # text = Your nose is an early-warning system: it can pick up tiny amounts of some substances in the air long before you can see anything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 013-smells-that-warn.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 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Your nose | a warning system | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pick up** | can | nose | tiny amounts of some substances | | the air | | long *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic | | 3 | **see** | can | you | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 4 | **amount** | | | some substances | | the air | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient in=place | 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:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounds that warn, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/19/) - next →: [Smells that warn, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/)