--- title: Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Paw Patrol pups drive diggers and fly helicopters, which no dog can do, but real dogs do have rescue jobs: they --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue… # Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs Lesson 140 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/0/) — The Paw Patrol pups drive diggers and fly helicopters, which no dog can do, but real dogs do have rescue jobs: they track people, sniff out hidden things, swim to swimmers and dig through snow. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/1/) — Their secret weapon is the nose: a dog has hundreds of millions of smell cells, sniffs five to ten times a second and can smell a person buried under a metre of snow. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/2/) — Picture an airport: a dog walks calmly past a row of suitcases, then sits beside one, because it smelled the thing it was trained to find and knows its favourite toy is coming. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/3/) — Real working dogs do not obey at once by magic; they learn through months of training with toys, treats and praise, and to many of them the job is a great game. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/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. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/5/) — A police dog lives with its handler and usually retires to live with the handler's family as a pet. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/6/) — Detection dogs are trained to sniff out things such as drugs, explosives, fruit carried in bags, money and even some illnesses. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/7/) — A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell cells, the smell part of its brain is huge compared with ours, it sniffs about five to ten times a second, and its nose keeps smelling air apart from breathing air. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/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. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/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. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/10/) — Labradors and Newfoundlands are water rescue dogs with water-resistant coats, webbed toes and strong swimming muscles; in Italy trained dogs jump from helicopters to help swimmers, and a Newfoundland can tow a small boat. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/11/) — Huskies are sled dogs with thick double coats and furry feet that can run for many hours in the cold, and a husky curls up in snow with its fluffy tail over its nose. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/12/) — Avalanche dogs find people buried in snow by smell rising through gaps in the snow, searching in minutes an area that would take a team of people hours. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/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. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/14/) — No dog can fly, but small light dogs help in rescues by wriggling into gaps and over unstable rubble, and some dogs are lowered from rescue helicopters on ropes with their handlers. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/15/) — Working dogs learn over months with rewards like toys, treats and praise, with big jobs broken into small steps, and many think of the job as a game that ends with their favourite toy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/16/) — Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do, after thousands of years living with people, and they often look at the left side of a person's face. - ← previous: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/) - next →: [Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)