--- title: Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many dogs have real jobs. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, r… # Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs Lesson 196 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/0/) — Many dogs have real jobs. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/1/) — They use the things dogs are best at, a superb nose, sharp ears, speed, strength and a deep wish to work with people, to help us every day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/2/) — Picture a blind woman walking to the shops: her guide dog stops dead at the kerb so she knows a road is there, and if she says «forward» while a car is coming, the dog refuses. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/3/) — At the airport a beagle sniffs a line of suitcases and suddenly sits down: it has smelled something it was trained to find, and the sit is its way of telling its handler. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/4/) — Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a jacket that says «do not distract» is busy; stroking or calling it could put its owner in danger. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/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. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/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. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/7/) — A border collie herds sheep by running around them and bringing them to the shepherd, who guides the dog with whistles that carry far across a hillside. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/8/) — Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/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. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/10/) — Husky teams pull sleds across snow, and sled dog races in Alaska run for more than a thousand kilometres. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/11/) — Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people feel calmer, and some schools have reading dogs that children read aloud to. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/12/) — Police dogs are trained to follow a scent trail and to find and hold people; when they retire they often live with their handler. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/13/) — Livestock guardian dogs grow up with sheep and treat them as their family, barking at and chasing away foxes and other predators, often at night. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/15/) — An assistance dog in a jacket marked «do not distract» is working, so you should not stroke, call or feed it without asking its owner. - ← previous: [Training a dog with rewards and patience](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience/) - next →: [Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)