--- title: Keepers give polar bears ice blocks with fish, meat or fruit frozen… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Keepers give polar bears ice blocks with fish, meat or fruit frozen inside, so breaking the ice keeps them busy, a bit like hunting; a wild bear can smell a seal under the snow from a long way off, often said to be about a kilometre. Who acts: Keepers, breaking, bit, wild bear. 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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 (Keepers, breaking, bit, wild bear), 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:6 # text = Keepers give polar bears ice blocks with fish, meat or fruit frozen inside, so breaking the ice keeps them busy, a bit like hunting; a wild bear can smell a seal under the snow from a long way off, often said to be about a kilometre. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 13 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 inside inside ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 26 like like SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 43 off off ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 45 often often ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 48 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 49 about about ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 xcomp _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Keepers | ice blocks | polar bears | | | with fish and meat or fruit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient block=Theme | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | fruit *not said here* | | | | inside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **break** | gerund | | the ice | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ice=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | breaking | blocks *= block* | | | | busy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **hunt** | gerund | a bit *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **smell** | can | a wild bear | a seal | | the snow | | from a long way | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seal=Theme under snow=Location | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | about a kilometre | 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:6`. **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 ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/5/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)