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title: Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow;… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow; inside, black bears can go months without eating, drinking, peeing or pooing, and their bodies recycle waste into useful protein, scientists reported. Who acts: Bears, black bears, bodies, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Bears
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# Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 10

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Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow; inside, black bears can go months without eating, drinking, peeing or pooing, and their bodies recycle waste into useful protein, scientists reported.

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**Who acts:** Bears, black bears, bodies, scientists · **What happens:** dig, go, eat, drink, pee, poo · **To what, where:** winter dens, tree roots, waste, useful protein

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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 (Bears, black bears, bodies, scientists), 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:10
# text = Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow; inside, black bears can go months without eating, drinking, peeing or pooing, and their bodies recycle waste into useful protein, scientists reported.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:parataxis
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dens	den	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	peeing	pee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pooing	poo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	recycle	recycle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
35	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	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 | **dig** | present | Bears | winter dens or snow |  | tree roots and hillsides |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent den=Theme under root=Location |
| 2 | **go** | can | black bears |  |  |  | month | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pee** | gerund | black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **poo** | gerund | black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **recycle** | present | claws's bodies | waste |  | useful protein |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **report** | past | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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