Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 13

In 2023 a sun bear in a Chinese zoo stood up so like a person that people online said it was a man in a costume, and the zoo said it was a real bear.

Who acts: sun bear, people, bear, zoo · What happens: stand up, say, be · To what, where: 2023, person, man, costume, real bear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sun bear, people, bear, zoo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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