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title: Police forces use dogs, very often German shepherds and Belgian Mali… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Police forces, breeds. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire,
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** Police forces, breeds · **What happens:** use, track, search, find, hide, be · **To what, where:** dogs, people, buildings, hidden things, scent

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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 (Police forces, breeds), 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:4
# text = 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.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Malinois	malinois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	track	track	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
22	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
37	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	obl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Police forces | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **track** | to-infinitive | Police forces *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **search** | infinitive | Police forces *not said here* | buildings |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent building=Location |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | Police forces *not said here* | hidden things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 5 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | this breeds |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | this breeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **learn** | to-infinitive | this breeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **follow** | gerund |  | a scent |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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