Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 14

The sloth bear of India and Sri Lanka has a gap where two upper front teeth are missing; it closes its nostrils, blows away dust and sucks termites up through the gap, and mothers carry their cubs on their backs.

Who acts: sloth bear, two upper front teeth, bear, mothers · What happens: have, be, close, blow away, suck, carry · To what, where: gap, nostrils, dust, termites, cubs, backs

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 (sloth bear, two upper front teeth, bear, mothers), 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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