Bears, sentence 11
Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.
What happens: bear, be · To what, where: Black bear cubs, den, size
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: 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cubs | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 brown | cc |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Black | conj |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cubs | compound |
| 5 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 den | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 den | det |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midwinter | case |
| 12 | midwinter | midwinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 size | cc |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 size | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 size | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 size | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 size | det |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pig | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pig | det |
| 21 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pig | compound |
| 22 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 size | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | Black bear cubs | the den | in midwinter | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the size | of a guinea pig; about property | tree rules |
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:11.
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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