Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 13

Bears break into bees' nests mostly for the grubs, which are full of fat and protein; most bears eat mainly plants, berries and nuts.

Who acts: Bears, grubs, most bears · What happens: break, be, eat · To what, where: nests, plants

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Bears, grubs, most 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	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 nests	case
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nests	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 bees	case
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	obl
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 grubs	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 grubs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grubs	det
10	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 full	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grubs	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fat	case
16	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 protein	cc
18	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fat	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 bears	amod
21	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 break	parataxis
23	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 berries	punct
26	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nuts	cc
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 break	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present	Bears		into bees's nests result; for the grubs	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into nest=Result
2	is	present	the grubs		of fat and protein; full property	tree rules
3	eat	present	most bears	plants and berries and nuts	mainly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:13.

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, R7-rel-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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