--- title: At the airport a beagle sniffs a line of suitcases and suddenly sits… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: At the airport a beagle sniffs a line of suitcases and suddenly sits down: it has smelled something it was trained to find, and the sit is its way of telling its handler. Who acts: beagle, sit, way. 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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 (beagle, sit, way), 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:3 # text = At the airport a beagle sniffs a line of suitcases and suddenly sits down: it has smelled something it was trained to find, and the sit is its way of telling its handler. # 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 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 airport airport NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beagle beagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 suitcases suitcase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 smelled smell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sit sit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 handler handler NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | present | a beagle | a line of suitcases | | the airport | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 2 | **sit down** | present | a beagle *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **smell** | present · perfect | beagle | something | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 4 | **train** | past · passive | | beagle | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | beagle *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | the sit | sit's way | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | sit's way *not said here* | sit's handler | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent handler=Recipient | 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. 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