--- title: Livestock guardian dogs grow up with sheep and treat them as their f… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Livestock guardian dogs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Livestock guardian 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:13 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Livestock livestock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 guardian guardian NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 barking bark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 15 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **grow up** | present | Livestock guardian dogs | | | | | with sheep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **treat** | present | Livestock guardian dogs *not said here* | dogs *= dog* | | | | as dogs's family | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as family=Attribute | | 3 | **bark** | gerund | Livestock guardian dogs *not said here* | | | | night | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **chase away** | gerund | Livestock guardian dogs *not said here* | foxes and other predators | | | | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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](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:13`. **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, 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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