--- title: The Asiatic black bear, or moon bear, has a cream-coloured crescent… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics description: The Asiatic black bear, or moon bear, has a cream-coloured crescent on its chest, lives in forests from Afghanistan to Japan, and bends branches into platforms in trees while feeding on nuts and fruit. Who acts: Asiatic black bear. 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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 (Asiatic black bear), 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:11 # text = The Asiatic black bear, or moon bear, has a cream-coloured crescent on its chest, lives in forests from Afghanistan to Japan, and bends branches into platforms in trees while feeding on nuts and fruit. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Asiatic Asiatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 crescent crescent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Afghanistan Afghanistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 30 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 platforms platform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 feeding feeding VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Asiatic black bear or moon bear | a coloured crescent | | bear's chest | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crescent=Patient | | 2 | **live** | present | the Asiatic black bear or moon bear *not said here* | | | forests from Afghanistan to Japan | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | | 3 | **bend** | present | the Asiatic black bear or moon bear *not said here* | branches | | platforms in trees | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into platform=Product | | 4 | **feeding** | gerund | the Asiatic black bear or moon bear *not said here* | | | nuts and fruit | | | tree rules | 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. 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