Bears, sentence 1

Most bears eat almost anything: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish and meat, so a grizzly at a waterfall in autumn snaps up leaping salmon to get fat before winter.

Who acts: Most bears, grizzly · What happens: eat, snap up, leap, get · To what, where: anything, leaping salmon

This is a sentence of the lesson «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 (Most bears, grizzly), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 anything	advmod
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 eat	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 berries	punct
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 anything	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nuts	punct
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 berries	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 roots	punct
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 berries	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 insects	punct
13	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 berries	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fish	punct
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 berries	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 meat	cc
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 berries	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grizzly	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 grizzly	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 grizzly	det
21	grizzly	grizzly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snaps	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 waterfall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 waterfall	det
24	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grizzly	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 autumn	case
26	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snaps	obl
27	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 snaps	compound:prt
29	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 salmon	amod
30	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snaps	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 snaps	advcl
33	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 get	xcomp
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 winter	case
35	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Most bears	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	snap up	present	a grizzly at a waterfall	leaping salmon	autumn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location salmon=Theme
3	leap	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	a grizzly at a waterfall not said here		winter	fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:023-bears.lesson:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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