--- title: Sniffer dogs are trained to find particular smells such as drugs, fo… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: Sniffer dogs are trained to find particular smells such as drugs, food or explosives, and beagles are often used at airports because they are friendly and have excellent noses. Who acts: Sniffer dogs, dogs. 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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 (Sniffer dogs, dogs), 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:6 # text = Sniffer dogs are trained to find particular smells such as drugs, food or explosives, and beagles are often used at airports because they are friendly and have excellent noses. # 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 Sniffer sniffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 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 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 explosives explosive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 beagles beagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 airports airport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **train** | present · passive | | Sniffer dogs | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Sniffer dogs *not said here* | particular smells | | | | such drugs and food or explosives | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | beagles | | airports | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | dogs *= dog* | | | | | friendly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | excellent noses | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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