--- title: A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow, look white and trap… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow, look white and trap warmth, and its skin underneath is black; in warm zoos tiny green algae sometimes grow inside the hollow hairs and turn the fur green. Who acts: hairs, skin underneath, tiny green algae. A sentence of the lesson «Bears» of the biol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/7/) [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/) / 7 # Bears, sentence 7 A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow, look white and trap warmth, and its skin underneath is black; in warm zoos tiny green algae sometimes grow inside the hollow hairs and turn the fur green. **Who acts:** hairs, skin underneath, tiny green algae · **What happens:** be, look, grow, turn · **To what, where:** warm zoos 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 (hairs, skin underneath, tiny green algae), 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:7 # text = A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow, look white and trap warmth, and its skin underneath is black; in warm zoos tiny green algae sometimes grow inside the hollow hairs and turn the fur green. # 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, R8-pos-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 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 see see ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 through thorough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod:poss 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 underneath underneath NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 33 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 34 inside inside ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 42 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a polar bear's hairs | | | | | see *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | skin underneath | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | present | tiny green algae | | | warm zoos | | inside the hollow hairs; sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location | | 5 | **turn** | present | tiny green algae *not said here* | | | | | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/6/) - next →: [Bears, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)