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title: It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics
description: It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a book, smelling food, cubs and danger far away. Who acts: bear, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 1

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It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a book, smelling food, cubs and danger far away.

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**Who acts:** bear, you · **What happens:** lift, read, smell · **To what, where:** head, wind, air, book, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» 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 (bear, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.lesson:1
# text = It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a book, smelling food, cubs and danger far away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.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 ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **lift** | present | bear | bear's head |  | the wind |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into wind=Destination |
| 2 | **read** | present | bear *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Topic |
| 3 | **read** | past | you | a book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 4 | **smell** | gerund | bear *not said here* | food and cubs and danger |  |  |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |

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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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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