Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 19

Real bears stand on two legs only to look or sniff; they can walk a few steps upright, but it is slow and awkward, and they walk on four legs.

Who acts: Real bears, animals, bear · What happens: stand, look, sniff, walk, be · To what, where: two legs, few steps, four legs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (Real bears, animals, 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stand	nsubj
3	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 legs	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stand	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sniff	cc
11	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 walk	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walk	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 walk	aux
15	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 steps	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steps	amod
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 walk	obj
19	upright	upright	ADV	_	15 walk	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slow	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 slow	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slow	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 slow	cop
24	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stand	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 awkward	cc
26	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slow	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walk	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 walk	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 walk	nsubj
30	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 legs	case
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 legs	nummod
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 walk	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Real bears		two legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	look	to-infinitive	Real bears not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sniff	infinitive	Real bears not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk	can	animals = animal	a few steps		upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
5	is	present	bear			slow property	tree rules
6	be		bear not said here				tree rules
7	walk	present	animals = animal		four legs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory

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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:19.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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