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title: Avalanche dogs find people buried in snow by smell rising through ga… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Avalanche dogs, people, area. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the biology course of 
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** Avalanche dogs, people, area · **What happens:** find, bury, rise, search, take · **To what, where:** people, snow, gaps, area, team

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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 (Avalanche dogs, people, area), 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Avalanche dogs | people |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  | snow |  | by smell | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in snow=Destination |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | gaps in the snow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gap=Location |
| 4 | **search** | gerund | people *not said here* | a area |  |  | minute |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Location |
| 5 | **take** | would | a area | a team of people |  |  | hour |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=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:12`.

**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. **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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