--- title: American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white, li… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics description: American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white, like the spirit bear of Canada; it is the commonest bear in the world, with hundreds of thousands living wild, and it climbs trees easily. Who acts: American black bears, bear, thousands. 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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 (American black bears, bear, thousands), 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:9 # text = American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white, like the spirit bear of Canada; it is the commonest bear in the world, with hundreds of thousands living wild, and it climbs trees easily. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 cinnamon cinnamon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 commonest common ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 easily easily ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | American black bears | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | American black bears *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | American black bears *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | bear | the commonest bear | | the world | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | gerund | thousands *not said here* | | | | | wild *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **climb** | present | bear | trees | | | | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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