Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 13
Real bulldogs are not builders or strong swimmers; they were bred long ago for a cruel sport and later for looks, which gave them short faces and heavy bodies that make hard work difficult.
Who acts: Real bulldogs, looks, heavy bodies · What happens: not be, breed, give, make · To what, where: builders, bulldogs, short faces, hard work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer 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 (Real bulldogs, looks, heavy bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bulldogs | amod |
| 2 | bulldogs | bulldog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 builders | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 builders | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 builders | advmod |
| 5 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 swimmers | cc |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swimmers | amod |
| 8 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 builders | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bred | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bred | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bred | aux:pass |
| 12 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 builders | parataxis |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ago | advmod |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 bred | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sport | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sport | det |
| 17 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sport | amod |
| 18 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bred | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looks | cc |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 looks | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 looks | case |
| 22 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sport | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 looks | acl:relcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 faces | amod |
| 28 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gave | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bodies | cc |
| 30 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bodies | amod |
| 31 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 faces | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 make | nsubj |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bodies | acl:relcl |
| 34 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 work | amod |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 36 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 make | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 builders | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Real bulldogs | builders or strong swimmers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breed | past · passive | bulldogs = bulldog | for a cruel sport and looks; ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | looks | short faces and heavy bodies | bulldogs = bulldog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient face=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | present | heavy bodies | hard work | difficult property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product |
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, 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:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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