--- title: Dalmatian puppies are born white, their spots appear after about two… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics description: Dalmatian puppies are born white, their spots appear after about two weeks and keep filling in for months, and many Dalmatians are deaf in one or both ears, linked to the genes that make them so white. Who acts: spots, many Dalmatians, genes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spots, many Dalmatians, genes), 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:9 # text = Dalmatian puppies are born white, their spots appear after about two weeks and keep filling in for months, and many Dalmatians are deaf in one or both ears, linked to the genes that make them so white. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dalmatian dalmatian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 10 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 filling fill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Dalmatians dalmatian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | Dalmatian puppies | | | | white *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **appear** | present | puppies's spots | | | | week | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | puppies's spots *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fill in** | gerund | puppies's spots *not said here* | | | | month | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | many Dalmatians | | | | | in one; deaf *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **link** | participle | many Dalmatians *not said here* | | | | | to the genes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to gene=Co-Patient | | 7 | **make** | present | the genes | Dalmatians *= dalmatian* | | | | white *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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. **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:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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