Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 1

They use the things dogs are best at, a superb nose, sharp ears, speed, strength and a deep wish to work with people, to help us every day.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: use, be, work, help · To what, where: things, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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 (dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 best	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 things	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	7 best	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nose	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nose	det
11	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nose	amod
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ears	punct
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ears	amod
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nose	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speed	punct
17	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nose	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strength	punct
19	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nose	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wish	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wish	det
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wish	amod
23	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nose	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 work	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 people	acl:relcl
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 help	obj
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	dogs = dog	the things				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is	present	dogs	the things not said here			good property	tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	dogs = dog not said here				with people	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent
4	help	to-infinitive	dogs = dog not said here		us	day		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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, 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:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs.lesson:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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