Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 12

Police dogs are trained to follow a scent trail and to find and hold people; when they retire they often live with their handler.

Who acts: Police dogs, dogs · What happens: train, follow, find, hold, retire, live · To what, where: Police dogs, scent trail, people

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 (Police dogs, 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	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dogs	compound
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trained	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux:pass
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trail	det
8	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trail	compound
9	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 follow	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hold	cc
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 find	conj
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hold	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 retire	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 retire	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 retire	nsubj
19	retire	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 live	advcl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 live	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 live	advmod
22	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	parataxis
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 handler	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 handler	nmod:poss
25	handler	handler	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 live	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		Police dogs		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	follow	to-infinitive	Police dogs not said here	a scent trail		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	Police dogs not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	hold	infinitive	Police dogs not said here	people		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
5	retire	present	dogs = dog			vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	present	dogs = dog		with dogs's handler; often property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with handler=Location

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:12.

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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