Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 9
Dalmatian puppies are born white, their spots appear after about two weeks and keep filling in for months, and many Dalmatians are deaf in one or both ears, linked to the genes that make them so white.
Who acts: spots, many Dalmatians, genes · What happens: bear, appear, keep, fill in, be, link · To what, where: Dalmatian puppies, Dalmatians
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 (spots, many Dalmatians, genes), 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 | Dalmatian | dalmatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 puppies | amod |
| 2 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 born | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spots | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appear | nsubj |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | parataxis |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 weeks | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 two | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 weeks | nummod |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appear | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | conj |
| 16 | filling | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 filling | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 months | case |
| 19 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deaf | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deaf | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Dalmatians | amod |
| 23 | Dalmatians | dalmatian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 deaf | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 deaf | cop |
| 25 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 appear | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 deaf | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 ears | cc |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 ears | det |
| 30 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 deaf | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 linked | punct |
| 32 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 deaf | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 genes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 genes | det |
| 35 | genes | gene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 linked | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 make | nsubj |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 genes | acl:relcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 white | advmod |
| 40 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 make | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | 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 | bear | present · passive | Dalmatian puppies | white property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | puppies's spots | week | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | puppies's spots not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fill in | gerund | puppies's spots not said here | month | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | many Dalmatians | in one; deaf property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | link | participle | many Dalmatians not said here | to the genes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to gene=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | present | the genes | Dalmatians = dalmatian | white property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.
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