Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 15

The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, is the only bear in South America; it climbs trees and eats mostly plants and fruit.

Who acts: spectacled bear, bear · What happens: be, climb, eat · To what, where: only bear, South America, trees, plants

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 (spectacled bear, 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	3 bear	det
2	spectacled	spectacled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Andes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Andes	det
6	Andes	Andes	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 bear	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rings	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rings	case
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rings	amod
10	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Andes	nmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rings	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bear	amod
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 America	case
20	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 America	compound
21	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bear	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 climbs	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 climbs	nsubj
24	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	parataxis
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 climbs	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eats	cc
27	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 climbs	conj
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	29 plants	advmod
29	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eats	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fruit	cc
31	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plants	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the spectacled bear of the Andes with pale rings around bear's eyes	the only bear	South America	tree rules
2	climb	present	bear	trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	eat	present	bear not said here	plants and fruit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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