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title: No dog can fly, but small light dogs help in rescues by wriggling in… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: dog, small light dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of 
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** dog, small light dogs · **What happens:** fly, help, wriggle, lower · **To what, where:** rescues, gaps, dogs, rescue helicopters

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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 (dog, small light dogs), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rescues	rescue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	unstable	unstable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rubble	rubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	handlers	handler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **fly** | can | no dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | small light dogs |  |  | rescues |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wriggle** | gerund | small light dogs *not said here* |  |  | gaps |  | over unstable rubble | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lower** | present · passive |  | some dogs |  | rescue helicopters |  | on ropes with gaps's handlers | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from helicopter=Destination on rope=Initial\_Location |

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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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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