Bears, sentence 7
A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow, look white and trap warmth, and its skin underneath is black; in warm zoos tiny green algae sometimes grow inside the hollow hairs and turn the fur green.
Who acts: hairs, skin underneath, tiny green algae · What happens: be, look, grow, turn · To what, where: warm zoos
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 (hairs, skin underneath, tiny green algae), 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 | 5 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bear | case |
| 5 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | cop |
| 7 | see | see | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 through | punct |
| 9 | through | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hollow | cc |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 through | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 warmth | cc |
| 16 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | conj |
| 17 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 black | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 black | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 skin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 underneath | compound |
| 22 | underneath | underneath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 black | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 black | cop |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 white | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 zoos | case |
| 27 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 zoos | amod |
| 28 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grow | obl |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 algae | amod |
| 30 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 algae | amod |
| 31 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grow | nsubj |
| 32 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 grow | advmod |
| 33 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 34 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 37 hairs | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hairs | det |
| 36 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hairs | amod |
| 37 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grow | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 turn | cc |
| 39 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 grow | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fur | det |
| 41 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 green | obj |
| 42 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 turn | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a polar bear's hairs | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | white property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | skin underneath | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | tiny green algae | warm zoos | inside the hollow hairs; sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location | |||
| 5 | turn | present | tiny green algae not said here | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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, R8-pos-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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