--- title: In 2023 a sun bear in a Chinese zoo stood up so like a person that p… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics description: In 2023 a sun bear in a Chinese zoo stood up so like a person that people online said it was a man in a costume, and the zoo said it was a real bear. Who acts: sun bear, people, bear, zoo. 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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 (sun bear, people, bear, zoo), 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:13 # text = In 2023 a sun bear in a Chinese zoo stood up so like a person that people online said it was a man in a costume, and the zoo said it was a real bear. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 online online ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 costume costume NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 37 . . 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 | **stand up** | past | a sun bear in a Chinese zoo | | | 2023 | | like a person | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 2023=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | a person | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | past | bear | a man | | a costume | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the zoo | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | bear | a real bear | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:13`. **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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