--- title: A polar bear looks white, but each hair is see-through and hollow an… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: A polar bear looks white, but each hair is see-through and hollow and its skin is black, and the giant panda eats almost only bamboo, gripping the stems with a thumb-like bump on its wrist. Who acts: polar bear, hair, skin, giant panda. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/3/) [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/) / 3 # Bears, sentence 3 A polar bear looks white, but each hair is see-through and hollow and its skin is black, and the giant panda eats almost only bamboo, gripping the stems with a thumb-like bump on its wrist. **Who acts:** polar bear, hair, skin, giant panda · **What happens:** look, see, be, eat, grip · **To what, where:** bamboo, stems 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 (polar bear, hair, skin, giant panda), 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:3 # text = A polar bear looks white, but each hair is see-through and hollow and its skin is black, and the giant panda eats almost only bamboo, gripping the stems with a thumb-like bump on its wrist. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 through through ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a polar bear | | | | | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | each hair | | | | | through *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | each hair *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | bear's skin | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | the giant panda | bamboo | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient | | 7 | **grip** | gerund | the giant panda *not said here* | the stems | | | | with a like bump on bear's wrist | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stem=Experiencer with bump=Instrument | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/2/) - next →: [Bears, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)