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title: Then it crawls into a den and sleeps for months without eating, drin… — Bears · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it crawls into a den and sleeps for months without eating, drinking or going to the toilet, living on that fat, and in midwinter a mother gives birth to tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig. Who acts: bear, mother. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Bears, sentence 2

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Then it crawls into a den and sleeps for months without eating, drinking or going to the toilet, living on that fat, and in midwinter a mother gives birth to tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig.

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**Who acts:** bear, mother · **What happens:** crawl, sleep, eat, drink, go, live · **To what, where:** den, toilet, fat, birth, tiny cubs, midwinter

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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 (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:2
# text = Then it crawls into a den and sleeps for months without eating, drinking or going to the toilet, living on that fat, and in midwinter a mother gives birth to tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig.
# 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, R5-strong ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **crawl** | present | bear |  |  | a den | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into den=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | bear *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  | the toilet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  | that fat |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location |
| 7 | **give** | present | a mother | birth | tiny cubs about the size of a guinea pig | midwinter |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to cub=Recipient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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