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title: In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upst… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter. Who acts: brown bears, salmon. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 7

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In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter.

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**Who acts:** brown bears, salmon · **What happens:** gather, catch, swim, fatten up · **To what, where:** rivers, salmon

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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, salmon), 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:7
# text = In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
10	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	upstream	upstream	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fattening	fatten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present | brown bears |  |  | rivers | autumn |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | brown bears *not said here* | salmon |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | salmon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upstream *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fatten up** | gerund | brown bears *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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