Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 9

American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white, like the spirit bear of Canada; it is the commonest bear in the world, with hundreds of thousands living wild, and it climbs trees easily.

Who acts: American black bears, bear, thousands · What happens: be, live, climb · To what, where: commonest bear, world, trees

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 (American black bears, bear, thousands), 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	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 black	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 black	cop
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brown	punct
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cinnamon	punct
10	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 white	cc
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 white	advmod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 bear	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	compound
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Canada	case
20	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bear	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bear	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bear	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bear	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bear	det
25	commonest	common	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 bear	amod
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bear	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hundreds	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 hundreds	case
32	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 thousands	case
34	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hundreds	nmod
35	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 thousands	acl
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 living	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 climbs	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 climbs	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 climbs	nsubj
40	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 black	conj
41	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 climbs	obj
42	easily	easily	ADV	_	40 climbs	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	American black bears			black property	tree rules
2	be		American black bears not said here				tree rules
3	be		American black bears not said here				tree rules
4	is a	present	bear	the commonest bear	the world		tree rules
5	live	gerund	thousands not said here			wild property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	climb	present	bear	trees		easily property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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