Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 13

Livestock guardian dogs grow up with sheep and treat them as their family, barking at and chasing away foxes and other predators, often at night.

Who acts: Livestock guardian dogs · What happens: grow up, treat, bark, chase away · To what, where: dogs, foxes

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 (Livestock guardian 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	Livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
2	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grow	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 treat	cc
9	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 treat	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 barking	punct
15	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 treat	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	15 barking	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 chasing	cc
18	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 barking	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 chasing	advmod
20	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chasing	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 predators	cc
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 predators	amod
23	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 foxes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
25	often	often	ADV	_	27 night	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 barking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	Livestock guardian dogs			with sheep	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	treat	present	Livestock guardian dogs not said here	dogs = dog		as dogs's family	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as family=Attribute
3	bark	gerund	Livestock guardian dogs not said here		night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	chase away	gerund	Livestock guardian dogs not said here	foxes and other predators		away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme

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:13.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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