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Spike The pronoun "he" in "Suddenly, he started barking loudly" has its antecedent in the immediately preceding clause that introduces "Spike, the dog," an entity explicitly capable of the action described (barking). Tom and Jerry, by contrast, are engaged in the prior action ("were playing") and lack any semantic association with barking, so coreference to either of them would violate both recency and selectional restrictions. Standard pronoun-resolution heuristics—recency, grammatical role parallelism, and semantic fit—therefore converge uniquely on Spike.