Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 9

Medical alert dogs can notice changes in a person's body, often by smell, and warn them, for example before a dangerous drop in blood sugar; scientists are also testing whether dogs can sniff out some illnesses.

Who acts: alert dogs, scientists, dogs · What happens: notice, warn, test, sniff out · To what, where: changes, body, dogs, illnesses

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 (alert dogs, scientists, 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	Medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 alert	amod
2	alert	alert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 body	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 body	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 person	case
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smell	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	15 smell	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 smell	case
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 warn	cc
18	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 notice	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 warn	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 example	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 example	case
22	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warn	obl
23	before	before	ADP	_	26 drop	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 drop	det
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 drop	amod
26	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warn	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sugar	case
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sugar	compound
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drop	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 testing	punct
31	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 testing	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 testing	aux
33	also	also	ADV	_	34 testing	advmod
34	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 notice	parataxis
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	38 sniff	mark
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sniff	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 sniff	aux
38	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 testing	ccomp
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 sniff	compound:prt
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 illnesses	det
41	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sniff	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 notice	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	can	alert dogs	changes		a person's body		by smell	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus
2	warn speech: warn	infinitive	alert dogs not said here		dogs = dog		before a dangerous drop in blood sugar	for example	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	test	present · progressive	scientists						tree rules
4	sniff out	can	dogs	some illnesses					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme

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:9.

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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