Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 6
Sniffer dogs are trained to find particular smells such as drugs, food or explosives, and beagles are often used at airports because they are friendly and have excellent noses.
Who acts: Sniffer dogs, dogs · What happens: train, find, use, be, have · To what, where: Sniffer dogs, particular smells, beagles, airports, excellent noses
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 (Sniffer dogs, 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 | Sniffer | sniffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dogs | compound |
| 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 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trained | xcomp |
| 7 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smells | amod |
| 8 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 drugs | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 smells | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 food | punct |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drugs | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 explosives | cc |
| 15 | explosives | explosive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drugs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 used | cc |
| 18 | beagles | beagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 used | aux:pass |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 used | advmod |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 trained | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 airports | case |
| 23 | airports | airport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | obl |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 friendly | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 friendly | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 friendly | cop |
| 27 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 used | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 friendly | conj |
| 30 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 noses | amod |
| 31 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present · passive | Sniffer dogs | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Sniffer dogs not said here | particular smells | such drugs and food or explosives | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic | |||
| 3 | use | present · passive | beagles | airports | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | present | dogs = dog | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | dogs = dog not said here | excellent noses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
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:6.
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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