Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 8
Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.
Who acts: Rescue dogs · What happens: smell, bury, search · To what, where: person, snow, area
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 (Rescue 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 | Rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dogs | compound |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smell | aux |
| 4 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smell | obj |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 person | acl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 rubble | cc |
| 11 | rubble | rubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snow | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 search | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 search | aux |
| 14 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 smell | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 area | det |
| 16 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | obj |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 faster | advmod |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 search | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 line | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 line | det |
| 21 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faster | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 line | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smell | 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 | smell | can | Rescue dogs | a person | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | a person not said here | snow or rubble | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | search | can | Rescue dogs not said here | a area | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Location |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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