--- title: They use the things dogs are best at, a superb nose, sharp ears, spe… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/1/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/) / 1 # Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 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. **Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** use, be, work, help · **To what, where:** things, us 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 (dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs.lesson # annotation = 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 superb superb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | dogs *= dog* | the things | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | dogs | the things *not said here* | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | | | | | with people | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | | us | | day | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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, R5-strong ×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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