Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 10

Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow; inside, black bears can go months without eating, drinking, peeing or pooing, and their bodies recycle waste into useful protein, scientists reported.

Who acts: Bears, black bears, bodies, scientists · What happens: dig, go, eat, drink, pee, poo · To what, where: winter dens, tree roots, waste, useful protein

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 (Bears, black bears, bodies, scientists), 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	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 reported	ccomp
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dens	compound
4	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 roots	case
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roots	compound
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hillsides	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 hillsides	case
10	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roots	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 snow	cc
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 snow	case
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dens	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
15	inside	inside	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bears	amod
18	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dig	parataxis
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	obl:unmarked
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 eating	mark
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 go	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drinking	punct
25	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 eating	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peeing	punct
27	peeing	pee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 eating	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 pooing	cc
29	pooing	poo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 peeing	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 recycle	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 recycle	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bodies	nmod:poss
33	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 recycle	nsubj
34	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
35	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 recycle	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 protein	case
37	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 protein	amod
38	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 recycle	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 reported	punct
40	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 reported	nsubj
41	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	Bears	winter dens or snow	tree roots and hillsides			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent den=Theme under root=Location
2	go	can	black bears			month	inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	gerund	black bears not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	black bears not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pee	gerund	black bears not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	poo	gerund	black bears not said here					tree rules
7	recycle	present	claws's bodies	waste	useful protein			tree rules
8	report	past	scientists					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=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:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.lesson:10.

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, 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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