Bears, sentence 15

Bears that get used to human food often become dangerous, so parks use bear-proof bins and tell visitors never to feed bears.

Who acts: Bears, parks · What happens: get, become, use, tell, not feed · To what, where: proof bins, visitors, bears · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bears, parks), 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	9 become	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bears	acl:relcl
4	used	used	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 used	fixed
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 become	advmod
9	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parks	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 use	advmod
13	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 use	nsubj
14	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 become	parataxis
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proof	obl:unmarked
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
17	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bins	amod
18	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 use	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 use	conj
21	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obj
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 feed	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 feed	mark
24	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tell	xcomp
25	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	Bears			used human food	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	become	present	Bears			dangerous, often property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	use	present	parks	proof bins			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	parks not said here		visitors		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	parks not said here	bears			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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