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title: The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, i… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, is the only bear in South America; it climbs trees and eats mostly plants and fruit. Who acts: spectacled bear, bear. A sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 15

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The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, is the only bear in South America; it climbs trees and eats mostly plants and fruit.

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**Who acts:** spectacled bear, bear · **What happens:** be, climb, eat · **To what, where:** only bear, South America, trees, plants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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 (spectacled bear, 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:15
# text = The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, is the only bear in South America; it climbs trees and eats mostly plants 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spectacled	spectacled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is a** | present | the spectacled bear of the Andes with pale rings around bear's eyes | the only bear |  | South America |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | present | bear | trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | bear *not said here* | plants and fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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