Bears, sentence 9

Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.

Who acts: Brown bears · What happens: catch, build up · To what, where: salmon, waterfalls, fat

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 (Brown bears), 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	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catch	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bears	punct
4	including	include	ADP	_	5 grizzlies	case
5	grizzlies	grizzly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bears	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 catch	punct
7	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 waterfalls	case
10	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catch	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 autumn	case
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 build	mark
14	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 catch	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 build	compound:prt
16	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 build	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 build	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 catch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Brown bears include grizzlies	salmon		waterfalls	autumn		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme at waterfall=Asset
2	build up	to-infinitive	Brown bears include grizzlies not said here	fat			winter		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fat=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:9.

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 ×1, 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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