Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 8

Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while black bears have shorter, curved claws for climbing.

Who acts: Grizzly claws, black bears · What happens: be, dig, have · To what, where: shorter curved claws

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 (Grizzly claws, black 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	Grizzly	grizzly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 claws	amod
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 long	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 long	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 10	advmod
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 centimetres	nummod
7	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 digging	mark
10	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 long	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bears	amod
14	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 long	advcl
16	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 claws	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curved	punct
18	curved	curve	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 claws	amod
19	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 climbing	case
21	climbing	climbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 claws	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	Grizzly claws		10 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	dig	gerund	Grizzly claws not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	black bears	shorter curved claws	for climbing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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:8.

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): no change. 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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