Bears, sentence 2

Then it crawls into a den and sleeps for months without eating, drinking or going to the toilet, living on that fat, and in midwinter a mother gives birth to tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig.

Who acts: bear, mother · What happens: crawl, sleep, eat, drink, go, live · To what, where: den, toilet, fat, birth, tiny cubs, midwinter

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 (bear, mother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crawls	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crawls	nsubj
3	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 den	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 den	det
6	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawls	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleeps	cc
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crawls	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sleeps	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sleeps	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drinking	punct
14	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 eating	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 going	cc
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 eating	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 toilet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 toilet	det
19	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 living	punct
21	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 eating	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 fat	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 fat	det
24	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 living	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gives	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gives	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 midwinter	case
28	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gives	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mother	det
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gives	nsubj
31	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crawls	conj
32	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gives	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cubs	case
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cubs	amod
35	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gives	obl
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 size	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 size	det
38	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cubs	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 pig	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pig	det
41	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pig	compound
42	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 size	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crawls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	crawl	present	bear			a den	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into den=Destination
2	sleep	present	bear not said here				month	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	bear not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	bear not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	gerund	bear not said here			the toilet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location
6	live	gerund	bear not said here			that fat		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location
7	give	present	a mother	birth	tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig	midwinter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to cub=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:2.

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, R5-strong ×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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