--- title: Polar bears clean themselves carefully after eating and roll in snow… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Polar bears clean themselves carefully after eating and roll in snow in summer, because clean fur keeps them warm and dirty fur lets cold and water reach the skin. Who acts: Polar bears, clean fur, dirty fur, cold. A sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: polar bears» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The polar zone: polar bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/) / 13 # The polar zone: polar bears, sentence 13 Polar bears clean themselves carefully after eating and roll in snow in summer, because clean fur keeps them warm and dirty fur lets cold and water reach the skin. **Who acts:** Polar bears, clean fur, dirty fur, cold · **What happens:** clean, eat, roll, keep, let, reach · **To what, where:** cubs, snow, skin This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: polar bears» 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 (Polar bears, clean fur, dirty fur, cold), 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:13 # text = Polar bears clean themselves carefully after eating and roll in snow in summer, because clean fur keeps them warm and dirty fur lets cold and water reach the skin. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | present | Polar bears | cubs *= cub* | | | | carefully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | Polar bears *not said here* | | | | summer | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **roll** | present | Polar bears *not said here* | | | snow | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | present | clean fur | cubs *= cub* | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **let** | present | dirty fur | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reach** | infinitive | cold and water | the skin | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent skin=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:13`. **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, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/12/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)