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title: Wild polar bears roam huge distances, so they need deep, cool water… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild polar bears roam huge distances, so they need deep, cool water and lots of space; small concrete pits in older zoos made many bears stressed, so many zoos stopped keeping them and newer ones built big areas with grass, hills and deep pools. Who acts: Wild polar bears, distances, small concrete 
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# The polar zone: polar bears, sentence 7

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Wild polar bears roam huge distances, so they need deep, cool water and lots of space; small concrete pits in older zoos made many bears stressed, so many zoos stopped keeping them and newer ones built big areas with grass, hills and deep pools.

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**Who acts:** Wild polar bears, distances, small concrete pits, many bears, many zoos · **What happens:** roam, need, make, stress, stop, keep · **To what, where:** huge distances, deep cool water, many bears, zoos, big areas

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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 (Wild polar bears, distances, small concrete pits, many bears), 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:7
# text = Wild polar bears roam huge distances, so they need deep, cool water and lots of space; small concrete pits in older zoos made many bears stressed, so many zoos stopped keeping them and newer ones built big areas with grass, hills and deep pools.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advcl
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
40	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
41	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | present | Wild polar bears | huge distances |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **need** | present | distances *= distance* | deep cool water and lots of space |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | small concrete pits in older zoos | many bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stress** | participle | many bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stop** | past | many zoos |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **keep** | gerund | many zoos *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **build** | past | many zoos *not said here* | big areas and deep pools |  |  |  | with grass and hills | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent area=Theme with grass=Source |

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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.

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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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