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title: Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autu… — Bears · tree and pragmatics
description: Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter. Who acts: Brown bears. 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.
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# Bears, sentence 9

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Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.

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**Who acts:** Brown bears · **What happens:** catch, build up · **To what, where:** salmon, waterfalls, fat

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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 (Brown bears), 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:9
# text = Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	including	include	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grizzlies	grizzly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
7	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | Brown bears include grizzlies | salmon |  | waterfalls | autumn |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme at waterfall=Asset |
| 2 | **build up** | to-infinitive | Brown bears include grizzlies *not said here* | fat |  |  | winter |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fat=Patient |

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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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**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:9`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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