Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 2

Picture a blind woman walking to the shops: her guide dog stops dead at the kerb so she knows a road is there, and if she says «forward» while a car is coming, the dog refuses.

Who acts: you, blind woman, guide dog, woman, road, car · What happens: picture, walk, stop, know, be, say · To what, where: blind woman, kerb · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, blind woman, guide dog, woman), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shops	det
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walking	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dog	nmod:poss
11	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dog	compound
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stops	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 kerb	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kerb	det
17	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 knows	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knows	nsubj
20	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 there	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 there	cop
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 knows	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 says	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 says	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 refuses	advcl
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 forward	punct
31	forward	forward	ADV	_	37 coming	advmod
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 forward	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 coming	mark
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 car	det
35	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 coming	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 coming	aux
37	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 says	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 refuses	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dog	det
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 refuses	nsubj
41	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a blind woman			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	walk	gerund	a blind woman not said here			to the shops result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shop=Result
3	stop	present	woman's guide dog		the kerb	dead property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location
4	know	present	woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	a road			there property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	come	present · progressive	a car			forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	refuse	present	the dog				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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:2.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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