Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 3
Cartoons give bears a honey pot, but real bears raid bees' nests as much for the fat juicy grubs as for the honey, and most bears eat far more berries and roots than meat.
Who acts: Cartoons, real bears, most bears · What happens: give, raid, eat · To what, where: honey pot, bears, nests, more berries
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 (Cartoons, real bears, most bears), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | _ | 6 pot | compound |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raid | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 raid | cc |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bears | amod |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raid | nsubj |
| 11 | raid | raid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 12 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nests | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 bees | case |
| 14 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raid | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 raid | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 grubs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grubs | det |
| 19 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grubs | amod |
| 20 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grubs | amod |
| 21 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raid | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 honey | case |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 honey | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 honey | det |
| 25 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raid | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eat | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eat | cc |
| 28 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 bears | amod |
| 29 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eat | nsubj |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | parataxis |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 berries | amod |
| 33 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eat | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 roots | cc |
| 35 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 berries | conj |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 meat | case |
| 37 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 berries | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Cartoons | a honey pot | bears | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient pot=Theme | |||
| 2 | raid | present | real bears | bees's nests | for the fat juicy grubs; as the honey | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Location for grub=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | present | most bears | more berries and roots | than meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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:3.
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 ×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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