--- title: The bear looks snow white, but each hair is clear and hollow and onl… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: The bear looks snow white, but each hair is clear and hollow and only looks white because it scatters light, like snow does, and underneath the fur the skin is black and the fat is thick. Who acts: bear, hair, skin, fat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, hair, skin, fat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson:1 # text = The bear looks snow white, but each hair is clear and hollow and only looks white because it scatters light, like snow does, and underneath the fur the skin is black and the fat is thick. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 scatters scatter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 like like SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 underneath underneath ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the bear | | | | | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | each hair | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | each hair *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | present | the bear *not said here* | | | | | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **scatter** | present | bear | light | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the skin | | | | | underneath the fur; black *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | the fat | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson:1`. **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 ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The polar zone: polar bears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/0/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)