Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 11

Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people feel calmer, and some schools have reading dogs that children read aloud to.

Who acts: Therapy dogs, people, schools, dogs, children · What happens: visit, help, feel, have, read · To what, where: hospitals, people, dogs

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 (Therapy dogs, people, schools, 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	Therapy	therapy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dogs	compound
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 homes	punct
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 homes	compound
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hospitals	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 schools	cc
9	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hospitals	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 visit	advcl
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 help	obj
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
14	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 feel	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 schools	det
18	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	conj
20	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 have	xcomp
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 read	obl
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 read	nsubj
24	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dogs	acl:relcl
25	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	24 read	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	24 read	case
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Therapy dogs	hospitals and care homes and schools		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospital=Co-Agent
2	help	to-infinitive	Therapy dogs not said here	people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	people not said here		calm property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	present	some schools	dogs		tree rules
5	read	gerund	dogs not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	read	past	children	dogs	aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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, 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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