--- title: A guide dog stops at kerbs and steps so its blind owner knows they a… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: A guide dog stops at kerbs and steps so its blind owner knows they are there, and it learns intelligent disobedience: refusing an order that would lead its owner into danger. Who acts: guide dog, blind owner, dogs, owner. 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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 (guide dog, blind owner, dogs, 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:5 # text = A guide dog stops at kerbs and steps so its blind owner knows they are there, and it learns intelligent disobedience: refusing an order that would lead its owner into 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 kerbs kerb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 intelligent intelligent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 disobedience disobedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 refusing refuse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 appos _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | a guide dog | | | kerbs and steps | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location | | 2 | **know** | present | kerb's blind owner | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | dogs *= dog* | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | present | owner | intelligent disobedience | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disobedience=Topic | | 5 | **refuse** | gerund | | a order | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 6 | **lead** | would | a order | owner's owner | | danger | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent owner=Theme into danger=Destination | 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:5`. **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. **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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