Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 4
Police forces use dogs, very often German shepherds and Belgian Malinois, to track people, search buildings and find hidden things, because these breeds are strong, quick to learn and good at following a scent.
Who acts: Police forces, breeds · What happens: use, track, search, find, hide, be · To what, where: dogs, people, buildings, hidden things, scent
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 (Police forces, breeds), 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 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 forces | compound |
| 2 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shepherds | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 often | advmod |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 German | advmod |
| 8 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shepherds | amod |
| 9 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Malinois | cc |
| 11 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Malinois | amod |
| 12 | Malinois | malinois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shepherds | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shepherds | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 track | mark |
| 15 | track | track | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | advcl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 track | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 search | punct |
| 18 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 track | conj |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 search | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 track | conj |
| 22 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 strong | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 strong | mark |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 breeds | det |
| 27 | breeds | breed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 strong | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 strong | cop |
| 29 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 quick | punct |
| 31 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 strong | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 learn | mark |
| 33 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 quick | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 good | cc |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 quick | conj |
| 36 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 37 following | mark |
| 37 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 good | obl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 scent | det |
| 39 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 following | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Police forces | dogs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | track | to-infinitive | Police forces not said here | people | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | infinitive | Police forces not said here | buildings | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent building=Location | ||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | Police forces not said here | hidden things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | this breeds | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | this breeds not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | learn | to-infinitive | this breeds not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | follow | gerund | a scent | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme |
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:4.
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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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