Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 1

It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a book, smelling food, cubs and danger far away.

Who acts: bear, you · What happens: lift, read, smell · To what, where: head, wind, air, book, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» 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 (bear, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifts	nsubj
2	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifts	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifts	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reads	cc
9	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lifts	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	obl:unmarked
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
15	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 way	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 read	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smelling	punct
19	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reads	advcl
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smelling	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cubs	punct
22	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 food	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 danger	cc
24	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 food	conj
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	19 smelling	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	present	bear	bear's head	the wind		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into wind=Destination
2	read	present	bear not said here	the air		the way obl:unmarked	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Topic
3	read	past	you	a book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
4	smell	gerund	bear not said here	food and cubs and danger		away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

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:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.lesson:1.

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): 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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