--- title: Most bears eat almost anything: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: Most bears eat almost anything: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish and meat, so a grizzly at a waterfall in autumn snaps up leaping salmon to get fat before winter. Who acts: Most bears, grizzly. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/1/) [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/) / [Bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/) / 1 # Bears, sentence 1 Most bears eat almost anything: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish and meat, so a grizzly at a waterfall in autumn snaps up leaping salmon to get fat before winter. **Who acts:** Most bears, grizzly · **What happens:** eat, snap up, leap, get · **To what, where:** anything, leaping salmon This is a sentence of the lesson «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 (Most bears, grizzly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:023-bears.lesson:1 # text = Most bears eat almost anything: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish and meat, so a grizzly at a waterfall in autumn snaps up leaping salmon to get fat before winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 023-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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 grizzly grizzly NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 waterfall waterfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 27 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 amod _ _ 30 salmon salmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 33 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **eat** | present | Most bears | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 2 | **snap up** | present | a grizzly at a waterfall | leaping salmon | | | autumn | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location salmon=Theme | | 3 | **leap** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | a grizzly at a waterfall *not said here* | | | | winter | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:023-bears.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, 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: [Bears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/0/) - next →: [Bears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)