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title: Dogs also work for us: they guide blind people, warn deaf people abo… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs also work for us: they guide blind people, warn deaf people about sounds and can even smell some illnesses. Who acts: Dogs, arms. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 8

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Dogs also work for us: they guide blind people, warn deaf people about sounds and can even smell some illnesses.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, arms · **What happens:** work, guide, warn, smell · **To what, where:** blind people, deaf people, illnesses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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 (Dogs, arms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:8
# text = Dogs also work for us: they guide blind people, warn deaf people about sounds and can even smell some illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	guide	guide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | present | Dogs |  |  |  |  | for us | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **guide** | present | arms *= arm* | blind people |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | arms *= arm* *not said here* |  | deaf people |  |  | about sounds | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Recipient about sound=Topic |
| 4 | **smell** | can | Dogs *not said here* | some illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus |

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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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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