Bears, sentence 17
The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.
What happens: name, refuse, not shoot, tie up · To what, where: teddy bear, 1902, bear
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | teddy | teddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | compound |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 named | aux:pass |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 Theodore | case |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 President | compound |
| 8 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Theodore | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Theodore | Theodore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | obl |
| 10 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Theodore | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1902 | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 1902 | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1902 | case |
| 14 | 1902 | 1902 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 refused | obl |
| 15 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Theodore | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shoot | mark |
| 17 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 refused | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bear | det |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoot | obj |
| 20 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bear | acl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 tied | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hunt | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hunt | det |
| 24 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tied | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | the teddy bear | after Theodore US President | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | 1902 | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not shoot | to-infinitive | a bear | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tie up | participle | a bear not said here | on a hunt | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on hunt=Co-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:023-bears.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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