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title: An American black bear can be brown or even white, the koala is not… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: An American black bear can be brown or even white, the koala is not a bear at all, and the red panda is not a bear either. Who acts: American black bear, koala, red panda. A sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 3

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An American black bear can be brown or even white, the koala is not a bear at all, and the red panda is not a bear either.

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**Who acts:** American black bear, koala, red panda · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** bear, all

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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 (American black bear, koala, red panda), 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:3
# text = An American black bear can be brown or even white, the koala is not a bear at all, and the red panda is not a bear either.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
29	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **is** | can | a American black bear |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a American black bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the koala | a bear |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the red panda | a bear |  |  |  | either *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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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