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title: Labradors and Newfoundlands are water rescue dogs with water-resista… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Labradors, rescue dogs, Newfoundland. A sentence of the lesson «Paw 
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** Labradors, rescue dogs, Newfoundland · **What happens:** be, web, train, jump, help, tow · **To what, where:** rescue dogs, Italy, swimmers, small boat

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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 (Labradors, rescue dogs, Newfoundland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:10
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Labradors	labrador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Newfoundlands	newfoundland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	resistant	resistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	webbed	web	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	tow	tow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Labradors and Newfoundlands | rescue dogs |  |  |  | with resistant coats and webbed toes and strong swimming muscles | tree rules |
| 2 | **web** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **jump** | present | rescue dogs |  |  | Italy |  | from helicopters | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in italy=Trajectory |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | rescue dogs *not said here* | swimmers |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **tow** | can | a Newfoundland | a small boat |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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