--- title: Sun bears are the smallest bears and use very long tongues and long… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sun bears are the smallest bears and use very long tongues and long claws to reach honey and insects in logs; sun bears often stand up on their back legs, and in 2023 people claimed a Chinese zoo's sun bear was a person in costume, but it was a real 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 (Sun bears, people, sun bear, costume), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:15 # text = Sun bears are the smallest bears and use very long tongues and long claws to reach honey and insects in logs; sun bears often stand up on their back legs, and in 2023 people claimed a Chinese zoo's sun bear was a person in costume, but it was a real bear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 17 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 claimed claim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 ccomp _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 costume costume NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 a** | present | Sun bears | the smallest bears | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | Sun bears *not said here* | long tongues and long claws | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Sun bears *not said here* | honey and insects | | logs | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | | 4 | **stand up** | present | sun bears | | | bears's back legs | | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | people | | | 2023 | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | a Chinese zoo's sun bear | a person | | costume | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | past | costume | a real bear | | | | | 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:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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