--- title: A brown bear can run about 50 kilometres an hour in short bursts, fa… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: A brown bear can run about 50 kilometres an hour in short bursts, faster than the fastest human sprinter, and a mother with cubs is especially dangerous, so back away slowly and never go between a mother and her cubs. Who acts: brown bear, mother. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biology cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/16/) [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/) / 16 # Bears, sentence 16 A brown bear can run about 50 kilometres an hour in short bursts, faster than the fastest human sprinter, and a mother with cubs is especially dangerous, so back away slowly and never go between a mother and her cubs. **Who acts:** brown bear, mother · **What happens:** run about, be, not go · **To what, where:** 50 kilometres, short bursts 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 (brown bear, mother), 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:16 # text = A brown bear can run about 50 kilometres an hour in short bursts, faster than the fastest human sprinter, and a mother with cubs is especially dangerous, so back away slowly and never go between a mother and her cubs. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 19 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 sprinter sprinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 especially especially ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 32 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 5 parataxis _ _ 34 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 38 between between ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 44 . . 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 | **run about** | can | a brown bear | 50 kilometres a hour | | short bursts | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burst=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | present | a mother with cubs | | | | | dangerous, especially *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive | a brown bear *not said here* | | | | | between a mother and mother's cubs | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between mother=Location | 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:16`. **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 ×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: [Bears, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/15/) - next →: [Bears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)