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title: A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a pers… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a person's. Who acts: sense, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 11

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A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a person's.

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**Who acts:** sense, dog · **What happens:** be, sense · **To what, where:** smell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 (sense, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:11
# text = A dog's sense of smell is many thousands of times better than a person's.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 079-senses-of-animals.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present | a dog's sense of smell |  |  |  |  | than a person; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sense** |  | a dog | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:11`.

**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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