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title: Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people feel calmer, and some schools have reading dogs that children read aloud to. Who acts: Therapy dogs, people, schools, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course
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# Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 11

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Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people feel calmer, and some schools have reading dogs that children read aloud to.

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**Who acts:** Therapy dogs, people, schools, dogs, children · **What happens:** visit, help, feel, have, read · **To what, where:** hospitals, people, dogs

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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 (Therapy dogs, people, schools, 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:11
# text = Therapy dogs visit hospitals, care homes and schools to help people feel calmer, and some schools have reading dogs that children read aloud to.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Therapy	therapy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | Therapy dogs | hospitals and care homes and schools |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospital=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Therapy dogs *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | some schools | dogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | gerund | dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **read** | past | children | dogs |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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. **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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