Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 11

A bear's winter sleep is lighter than a dormouse's: its body cools only a few degrees and it can wake fast, while a dormouse cools almost to the temperature of its nest; whether to call the bear's sleep true hibernation is still argued.

Who acts: winter sleep, body, bear, dormouse · What happens: be, cool, wake, call, argue, sleep · To what, where: few degrees, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (winter sleep, body, bear, dormouse), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bear	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	compound
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lighter	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lighter	cop
7	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 dormouse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dormouse	det
10	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lighter	obl
11	's	's	PART	_	10 dormouse	case
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 cools	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cools	nsubj
15	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lighter	parataxis
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 degrees	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 degrees	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 degrees	amod
19	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cools	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wake	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wake	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 wake	aux
23	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cools	conj
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 wake	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cools	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 cools	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dormouse	det
28	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cools	nsubj
29	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wake	advcl
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 temperature	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 temperature	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 temperature	det
33	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cools	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 nest	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 nest	nmod:poss
36	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 temperature	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 lighter	punct
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	40 call	mark
39	to	to	PART	_	40 call	mark
40	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 argued	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bear	det
42	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sleep	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 bear	case
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 call	obj
45	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hibernation	amod
46	hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 call	obj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 argued	aux:pass
48	still	still	ADV	_	49 argued	advmod
49	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lighter	parataxis
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lighter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a bear's winter sleep			than a dormouse; light property	tree rules
2	cool	present	bear's body	a few degrees			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	wake	can	bear			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cool	present	a dormouse			to the temperature of bear's nest	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	call	to-infinitive		the bear's sleep			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme hibernation=Result
6	argue speech: disagree	present · passive			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»
7	sleep		a bear				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent
8	sleep		the bear				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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:11.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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