Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 14

Most bears eat mostly plants, such as berries, roots, nuts and grass; a grizzly in late summer is reported to eat many thousands of berries a day, and only the polar bear eats mostly meat.

Who acts: Most bears, polar bear · What happens: eat, report · To what, where: plants, grizzly, many thousands, meat

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 (Most bears, polar 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 berries	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 berries	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plants	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 roots	punct
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 berries	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nuts	punct
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plants	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grass	cc
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nuts	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grizzly	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grizzly	det
18	grizzly	grizzly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reported	nsubj:pass
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 summer	case
20	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 summer	amod
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grizzly	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reported	aux:pass
23	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eat	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 reported	xcomp
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thousands	amod
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 berries	case
29	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thousands	nmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eats	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 eats	cc
34	only	only	ADV	_	37 bear	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bear	det
36	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bear	amod
37	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eats	nsubj
38	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
39	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	40 meat	advmod
40	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eats	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Most bears	plants and nuts and grass		such berries and roots; mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	report	present · passive		a grizzly in late summer			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	eat	to-infinitive		many thousands of berries	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
4	eat	present	the polar bear	meat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.lesson:14.

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 ×2, 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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