Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 8
Dalmatians really were fire dogs that ran beside horse-drawn fire carts, clearing the way and keeping the horses calm, and some American fire stations still keep one as a mascot.
Who acts: Dalmatians, fire dogs, American fire stations · What happens: be, run, draw, clear, keep · To what, where: fire dogs, drawn fire carts, way, horses, one
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 (Dalmatians, fire dogs, American fire stations), 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 | Dalmatians | dalmatian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 dogs | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 dogs | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dogs | cop |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dogs | compound |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 carts | case |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 horse | punct |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carts | amod |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carts | compound |
| 13 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clearing | punct |
| 15 | clearing | clear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ran | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clearing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 keeping | cc |
| 19 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 clearing | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horses | det |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 keeping | obj |
| 22 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 keeping | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 keep | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 stations | det |
| 26 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stations | amod |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stations | compound |
| 28 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 keep | advmod |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dogs | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 keep | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 mascot | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mascot | det |
| 34 | mascot | mascot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dogs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dalmatians | fire dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | fire dogs | drawn fire carts | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cart=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | clear | gerund | fire dogs not said here | the way | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent way=Source | ||||
| 5 | keep | gerund | fire dogs not said here | the horses | calm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 6 | keep | present | some American fire stations | one | still | as a mascot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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: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, 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.
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