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title: Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can s… — Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people. Who acts: Rescue dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 8

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Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.

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**Who acts:** Rescue dogs · **What happens:** smell, bury, search · **To what, where:** person, snow, area

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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 (Rescue 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:8
# text = Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	rubble	rubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Rescue dogs | a person |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | a person *not said here* |  | snow or rubble |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination |
| 3 | **search** | can | Rescue dogs *not said here* | a area |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Location |

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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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**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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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