Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 11

The Asiatic black bear, or moon bear, has a cream-coloured crescent on its chest, lives in forests from Afghanistan to Japan, and bends branches into platforms in trees while feeding on nuts and fruit.

Who acts: Asiatic black bear · What happens: have, live, bend, feeding · To what, where: coloured crescent, chest, forests, branches, platforms, nuts

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 (Asiatic black bear), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
2	Asiatic	Asiatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bear	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 bear	cc
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	compound
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crescent	det
12	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coloured	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 coloured	punct
14	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crescent	amod
15	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 chest	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 chest	nmod:poss
18	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lives	punct
20	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 forests	case
22	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lives	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 Afghanistan	case
24	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 forests	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Japan	case
26	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Afghanistan	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bends	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bends	cc
29	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bends	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 platforms	case
32	platforms	platform	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bends	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 trees	case
34	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 platforms	nmod
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 feeding	mark
36	feeding	feeding	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 bends	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 nuts	case
38	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 feeding	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fruit	cc
40	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 nuts	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	the Asiatic black bear or moon bear	a coloured crescent	bear's chest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crescent=Patient
2	live	present	the Asiatic black bear or moon bear not said here		forests from Afghanistan to Japan	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	bend	present	the Asiatic black bear or moon bear not said here	branches	platforms in trees	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into platform=Product
4	feeding	gerund	the Asiatic black bear or moon bear not said here		nuts and fruit	tree rules

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:11.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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