Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 5
A guide dog stops at kerbs and steps so its blind owner knows they are there, and it learns intelligent disobedience: refusing an order that would lead its owner into danger.
Who acts: guide dog, blind owner, dogs, owner, order · What happens: stop, know, be, learn, refuse, lead · To what, where: kerbs, intelligent disobedience, order, 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 (guide dog, blind owner, dogs, owner), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | compound |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stops | nsubj |
| 4 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 kerbs | case |
| 6 | kerbs | kerb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stops | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steps | cc |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kerbs | conj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 knows | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 owner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 owner | amod |
| 12 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stops | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 knows | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 learns | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 learns | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learns | nsubj |
| 20 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stops | conj |
| 21 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 disobedience | amod |
| 22 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 learns | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 refusing | punct |
| 24 | refusing | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 disobedience | appos |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 order | det |
| 26 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 refusing | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 lead | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lead | aux |
| 29 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 order | acl:relcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 owner | nmod:poss |
| 31 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lead | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 danger | case |
| 33 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lead | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a guide dog | kerbs and steps | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | present | kerb's blind owner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | dogs = dog | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | present | owner | intelligent disobedience | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disobedience=Topic | ||||
| 5 | refuse | gerund | a order | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead | would | a order | owner's owner | danger | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent owner=Theme into 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:5.
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. 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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