--- title: A border collie herds sheep by running around them and bringing them… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics description: A border collie herds sheep by running around them and bringing them to the shepherd, who guides the dog with whistles that carry far across a hillside. Who acts: shepherd, whistles. 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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 (shepherd, whistles), 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:7 # text = A border collie herds sheep by running around them and bringing them to the shepherd, who guides the dog with whistles that carry far across a hillside. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 collie collie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 herds herd VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 guides guide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hillside hillside NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **herd** | present | | sheep | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | | 2 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | around dogs *= dog* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory | | 3 | **bring** | gerund | | dogs *= dog* | the shepherd | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shepherd=Destination | | 4 | **guide** | present | the shepherd | the dog | | | | with whistles | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | present | whistles | | | a hillside | | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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:7`. **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 ×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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