--- title: A study reported that white spirit bears catch more salmon by day th… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics description: A study reported that white spirit bears catch more salmon by day than black ones, perhaps because a pale shape is harder for fish to see against the bright sky. Who acts: study, white spirit bears, pale shape. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (study, white spirit bears, pale shape), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:10 # text = A study reported that white spirit bears catch more salmon by day than black ones, perhaps because a pale shape is harder for fish to see against the bright sky. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 salmon salmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 advcl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 28 against against ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | present | white spirit bears | more salmon | | | day | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a pale shape | | | | | for fish; hard, perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | a pale shape *not said here* | | | | | against the bright sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:10`. **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. **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. 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