--- title: Polar bear cubs are born in a snow den in winter, blind and weighing… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Polar bear cubs are born in a snow den in winter, blind and weighing less than a kilogram, and stay with their mother about two years; she does not eat for months while feeding them milk. Who acts: town. 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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 (town), 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:10 # text = Polar bear cubs are born in a snow den in winter, blind and weighing less than a kilogram, and stay with their mother about two years; she does not eat for months while feeding them milk. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 weighing weigh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 19 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 kilogram kilogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **bear** | present · passive | | bear cubs | | a snow den | winter | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **weigh** | gerund | | a kilogram | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 3 | **stay** | present | | | | | | with cubs's mother two years | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location | | 4 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | town | | | | month | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feed** | gerund | town *not said here* | milk | cubs *= cub* | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme | 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:10`. **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, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/9/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)