Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 10

A study reported that white spirit bears catch more salmon by day than black ones, perhaps because a pale shape is harder for fish to see against the bright sky.

Who acts: study, white spirit bears, pale shape · What happens: report, catch, be, see · To what, where: more salmon

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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 (study, white spirit bears, pale shape), 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	2 study	det
2	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reported	nsubj
3	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 catch	mark
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bears	amod
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bears	compound
7	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	nsubj
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	ccomp
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 salmon	amod
10	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 ones	case
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 day	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 harder	punct
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 harder	advmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 harder	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shape	det
20	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shape	amod
21	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 harder	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 harder	cop
23	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 catch	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 fish	case
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 harder	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 harder	advcl
28	against	against	ADP	_	31 sky	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sky	amod
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	report	past	a study				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	catch	present	white spirit bears	more salmon	day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
3	is	present	a pale shape			for fish; hard, perhaps property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	a pale shape not said here			against the bright sky	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:10.

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. 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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