Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 8
Dogs also work for us: they guide blind people, warn deaf people about sounds and can even smell some illnesses.
Who acts: Dogs, arms · What happens: work, guide, warn, smell · To what, where: blind people, deaf people, illnesses
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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 (Dogs, arms), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 work | advmod |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 work | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 guide | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 guide | nsubj |
| 8 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | parataxis |
| 9 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 guide | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 warn | punct |
| 12 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 guide | conj |
| 13 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 warn | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 sounds | case |
| 16 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 warn | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smell | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 smell | aux |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 smell | advmod |
| 20 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 illnesses | det |
| 22 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | 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 | work | present | Dogs | for us | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | guide | present | arms = arm | blind people | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | arms = arm not said here | deaf people | about sounds | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Recipient about sound=Topic | |||
| 4 | smell | can | Dogs not said here | some illnesses | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus |
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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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