--- title: Picture a blind woman walking to the shops: her guide dog stops dead… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, blind woman, guide dog, woman. 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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 (you, blind woman, guide dog, woman), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kerb kerb NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 31 forward forward ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a blind woman | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a blind woman *not said here* | | | | | to the shops *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shop=Result | | 3 | **stop** | present | woman's guide dog | | | the kerb | | dead *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location | | 4 | **know** | present | woman | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | a road | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **come** | present · progressive | a car | | | | | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **refuse** | present | the dog | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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