Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 18
Most bears avoid people and leave if they hear them coming.
Who acts: Most bears, people, food · What happens: avoid, leave, hear, come · To what, where: people, 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 (Most bears, people, food), 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 avoid | nsubj |
| 3 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 avoid | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leave | cc |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 avoid | conj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hear | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 avoid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | present | Most bears | people | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | Most bears not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear a condition, not said to happen | present | people | food | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | food not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.
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): R8-pos-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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