Bears, sentence 3

A polar bear looks white, but each hair is see-through and hollow and its skin is black, and the giant panda eats almost only bamboo, gripping the stems with a thumb-like bump on its wrist.

Who acts: polar bear, hair, skin, giant panda · What happens: look, see, be, eat, grip · To what, where: bamboo, stems

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 (polar bear, hair, skin, giant panda), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 through	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 through	cc
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hair	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 through	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 through	cop
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 through	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 through	punct
13	through	through	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hollow	cc
15	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 through	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 black	cc
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 black	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 black	cop
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 through	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eats	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eats	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 panda	det
24	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 panda	amod
25	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eats	nsubj
26	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 only	advmod
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 bamboo	advmod
29	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eats	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gripping	punct
31	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 eats	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stems	det
33	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gripping	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	39 bump	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bump	det
36	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 like	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 thumb	punct
38	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bump	amod
39	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gripping	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 wrist	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 wrist	nmod:poss
42	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bump	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	a polar bear		white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	each hair		through property	tree rules
4	be		each hair not said here			tree rules
5	is	present	bear's skin		black property	tree rules
6	eat	present	the giant panda	bamboo		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient
7	grip	gerund	the giant panda not said here	the stems	with a like bump on bear's wrist	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stem=Experiencer with bump=Instrument

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:3.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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