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title: Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a ja… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a jacket that says «do not distract» is busy; stroking or calling it could put its owner in danger. Who acts: dog, jacket. A sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course of M
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# Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 4

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Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a jacket that says «do not distract» is busy; stroking or calling it could put its owner in danger.

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**Who acts:** dog, jacket · **What happens:** train, wear, say, not distract, be, stroke · **To what, where:** Working dogs, jacket, owner, danger · **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 (dog, jacket), 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:4
# text = Working dogs are trained for months or years, and a dog wearing a jacket that says «do not distract» is busy; stroking or calling it could put its owner in danger.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Working	work	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	stroking	stroke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **train** | present · passive |  | Working dogs |  |  | month |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | a dog | a jacket |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a jacket |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **distract** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stroke** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **put** | could | jacket | jacket's owner |  | danger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent owner=Theme in danger=Destination |

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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): R6-punct-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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