Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 6

A bear's sense of smell is one of the best of any animal, said to be several times better than a bloodhound's; the inside of its nose has a huge folded area full of smell sensors, and a polar bear is reported to smell a seal from more than a kilometre away.

Who acts: sense, inside, bear · What happens: be, say, have, fold, report, smell · To what, where: one, huge folded area, polar bear, seal, smell · 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 (sense, inside, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bear	case
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smell	case
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 best	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 best	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 animal	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 best	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sense	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	21 better	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 better	cop
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 better	obl:unmarked
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 said	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 bloodhound	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bloodhound	det
24	bloodhound	bloodhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 better	obl
25	's	's	PART	_	24 bloodhound	case
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 inside	det
28	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 nose	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 inside	nmod
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 area	det
34	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 area	amod
35	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 area	amod
36	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obj
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 area	amod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sensors	case
39	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sensors	compound
40	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 full	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 reported	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 reported	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bear	det
44	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 bear	amod
45	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reported	nsubj:pass
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 reported	aux:pass
47	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 full	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 smell	mark
49	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 reported	xcomp
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 seal	det
51	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 smell	obj
52	from	from	ADP	_	56 kilometre	case
53	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	56 kilometre	advmod
54	than	than	ADP	_	53 more	fixed
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 kilometre	det
56	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 away	obl
57	away	away	ADV	_	49 smell	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bear's sense of smell	one		of the best of any animal	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive			time	than a bloodhound; good property	tree rules
4	have	present	the inside of bear's nose	a huge folded area			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient
5	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	report	present · passive		a polar bear			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
7	smell	to-infinitive		a seal		away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus
8	sense		a bear	smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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:6.

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 ×2. 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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