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title: Brown bears live in North America, Europe and Asia; grizzlies and Ko… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Brown bears live in North America, Europe and Asia; grizzlies and Kodiak bears are brown bears, a big Kodiak can weigh over 600 kilograms, and a hump of muscle on the shoulders helps them dig. Who acts: Brown bears, grizzlies, big Kodiak, kilograms. A sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight
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# Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 6

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Brown bears live in North America, Europe and Asia; grizzlies and Kodiak bears are brown bears, a big Kodiak can weigh over 600 kilograms, and a hump of muscle on the shoulders helps them dig.

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**Who acts:** Brown bears, grizzlies, big Kodiak, kilograms · **What happens:** live, be, weigh, help, dig · **To what, where:** North America, brown bears, 600 kilograms, kilograms

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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 (Brown bears, grizzlies, big Kodiak, kilograms), 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:6
# text = Brown bears live in North America, Europe and Asia; grizzlies and Kodiak bears are brown bears, a big Kodiak can weigh over 600 kilograms, and a hump of muscle on the shoulders helps them dig.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	grizzlies	grizzly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Kodiak	kodiak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Kodiak	kodiak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
25	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Brown bears |  |  | North America and Europe and Asia |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | grizzlies and Kodiak bears | brown bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weigh** | can | a big Kodiak | 600 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 4 | **help** | present | Brown bears *not said here* | kilograms *= kilogram* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **dig** | infinitive | kilograms *= kilogram* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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