Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 3

At the airport a beagle sniffs a line of suitcases and suddenly sits down: it has smelled something it was trained to find, and the sit is its way of telling its handler.

Who acts: beagle, sit, way · What happens: sniff, sit down, smell, train, find, be · To what, where: line, airport, something, beagle, way, handler · 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 (beagle, sit, way), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 airport	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 airport	det
3	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sniffs	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beagle	det
5	beagle	beagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sniffs	nsubj
6	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sniffs	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 suitcases	case
10	suitcases	suitcase	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 line	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sits	cc
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 sits	advmod
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sniffs	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sits	compound:prt
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 smelled	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smelled	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 smelled	aux
18	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sniffs	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 smelled	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trained	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trained	aux:pass
22	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 something	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trained	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 way	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 way	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sit	det
28	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 way	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 way	cop
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smelled	conj
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 telling	mark
33	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 way	acl
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 handler	nmod:poss
35	handler	handler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 telling	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sniffs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sniff	present	a beagle	a line of suitcases	the airport		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
2	sit down	present	a beagle not said here			suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smell	present · perfect	beagle	something			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	train	past · passive		beagle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
5	find	to-infinitive	beagle not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	the sit	sit's way			tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	gerund	sit's way not said here	sit's handler			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent handler=Recipient

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:3.

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. 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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