Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 4

Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a jacket that says «do not distract» is busy; stroking or calling it could put its owner in danger.

Who acts: dog, jacket · What happens: train, wear, say, not distract, be, stroke · To what, where: Working dogs, jacket, owner, danger · 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 (dog, jacket), 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	Working	work	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
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	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trained	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 years	cc
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 months	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wearing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wearing	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wearing	nsubj
13	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 trained	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 jacket	det
15	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wearing	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 jacket	acl:relcl
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 distract	punct
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 distract	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 distract	advmod
21	distract	distract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 says	ccomp
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 distract	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 busy	cop
24	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 distract	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stroking	punct
26	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 busy	advcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 calling	cc
28	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stroking	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 calling	ccomp
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 owner	nmod:poss
33	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 danger	case
35	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		Working dogs		month		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	wear	gerund	a dog	a jacket				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	a jacket					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not distract in a quote	infinitive · do-support						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present					busy property	tree rules
6	stroke	gerund						vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	call speech: assert	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	put	could	jacket	jacket's owner	danger			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent owner=Theme in danger=Destination

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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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