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title: A guide dog or assistance dog in a harness is working, so you do not… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics
description: A guide dog or assistance dog in a harness is working, so you do not stroke, call or feed it. Who acts: guide dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cats and dogs up close, sentence 19

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A guide dog or assistance dog in a harness is working, so you do not stroke, call or feed it.

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**Who acts:** guide dog, you · **What happens:** work, not stroke, call, feed · **To what, where:** harness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday 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 (guide dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:19
# text = A guide dog or assistance dog in a harness is working, so you do not stroke, call or feed it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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	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	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 · progressive | a guide dog in a harness or assistance dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **stroke** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | harness |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:19`.

**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.

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

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