--- title: The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who i… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/17/) [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/) / 17 # Bears, sentence 17 The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt. **What happens:** name, refuse, not shoot, tie up · **To what, where:** teddy bear, 1902, bear 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: 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:17 # text = The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 teddy teddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Theodore Theodore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 Roosevelt Roosevelt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1902 1902 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 15 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **name** | present · passive | | the teddy bear | | | after Theodore US President | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **refuse** | past | | | | 1902 | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **shoot** | to-infinitive | | a bear | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | | 4 | **tie up** | participle | | a bear *not said here* | | | | on a hunt | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on hunt=Co-Patient | 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:17`. **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): no change. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/16/) - next →: [Wolves and dogs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)