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title: Dalmatians really were fire dogs that ran beside horse-drawn fire ca… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Dalmatians, fire dogs, American fire stations. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue 
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# Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 8

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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.

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**Who acts:** Dalmatians, fire dogs, American fire stations · **What happens:** be, run, draw, clear, keep · **To what, where:** fire dogs, drawn fire carts, way, horses, one

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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 (Dalmatians, fire dogs, American fire stations), 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:8
# text = 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.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dalmatians	dalmatian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
26	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mascot	mascot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Dalmatians | fire dogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | fire dogs |  |  | drawn fire carts |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cart=Trajectory |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **clear** | gerund | fire dogs *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent way=Source |
| 5 | **keep** | gerund | fire dogs *not said here* | the horses |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | present | some American fire stations | one |  |  | still | as a mascot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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**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, 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.

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