--- title: Polar bears are strong swimmers that paddle with huge front paws and… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Polar bears are strong swimmers that paddle with huge front paws and steer with the back legs, and one bear was tracked swimming for over nine days without stopping. Who acts: strong swimmers. A sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: polar bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The polar zone: polar bears, sentence 4 Polar bears are strong swimmers that paddle with huge front paws and steer with the back legs, and one bear was tracked swimming for over nine days without stopping. **Who acts:** strong swimmers · **What happens:** be, steer, track, swim, stop · **To what, where:** one bear 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 (strong swimmers), 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:4 # text = Polar bears are strong swimmers that paddle with huge front paws and steer with the back legs, and one bear was tracked swimming for over nine days without stopping. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 swimmers swimmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 paddle paddle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 13 steer steer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 tracked track VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 over over ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 without without SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 stopping stop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | strong swimmers | | | | | with huge front paws; paddle *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **steer** | present | strong swimmers *not said here* | | | | | with the back legs | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **track** | past · passive | | one bear | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **swim** | gerund | | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/3/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)