The polar zone: polar bears, sentence 9

Polar bears are the largest meat-eaters on land and may see people as food, and the Canadian town of Churchill has a bear patrol that people call instead of going near a bear, and a «polar bear jail» where bears that come into town are kept until they can be flown away.

Who acts: Polar bears, Canadian town, people, bears · What happens: be, see, have, call, go, come · To what, where: largest meat eaters, land, people, bear patrol, bear, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: polar bears» 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 (Polar bears, Canadian town, people, bears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eaters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eaters	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eaters	det
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 eaters	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaters	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 meat	punct
8	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 land	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaters	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eaters	conj
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
20	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 town	amod
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Churchill	case
23	Churchill	Churchill	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 town	nmod
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eaters	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 patrol	det
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 patrol	compound
27	patrol	patrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 call	obj
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 call	nsubj
30	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 patrol	acl:relcl
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 going	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 call	advcl
34	near	near	ADP	_	36 bear	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bear	det
36	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 jail	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 jail	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 jail	det
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	43 jail	punct
41	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bear	amod
42	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 jail	compound
43	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 patrol	conj
44	»	»	PUNCT	_	43 jail	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 kept	advmod
46	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 kept	nsubj:pass
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 come	nsubj
48	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 bears	acl:relcl
49	into	into	ADP	_	50 town	case
50	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 come	obl
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 kept	aux:pass
52	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 jail	acl:relcl
53	until	until	SCONJ	_	57 flown	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 flown	nsubj:pass
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 flown	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 flown	aux:pass
57	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 kept	advcl
58	away	away	ADV	_	57 flown	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eaters	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Polar bears	the largest meat eaters	land		tree rules
2	see	may	Polar bears not said here	people		as food	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus as food=Attribute
3	have	present	the Canadian town of Churchill	a bear patrol and a bear jail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patrol=Patient
4	call	present	people	a bear patrol and a bear jail			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
5	go	gerund	people not said here		a bear		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near bear=Location
6	come	present	bears		town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
7	keep	present · passive		bears			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	fly away	can · passive		people		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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, 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:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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