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title: An assistance dog in a jacket marked «do not distract» is working, s… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: assistance dog, you, owner. A sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 15

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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.

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**Who acts:** assistance dog, you, owner · **What happens:** mark, not distract, work, not stroke, call, feed · **To what, where:** jacket, trail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (assistance dog, you, owner), 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:15
# text = 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.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	distract	distract	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **mark** | participle |  | a jacket *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **distract** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **work** | present · progressive | a assistance dog in a jacket |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **stroke** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | trail |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | trail's owner |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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