--- title: A bear's winter sleep is lighter than a dormouse's: its body cools o… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: A bear's winter sleep is lighter than a dormouse's: its body cools only a few degrees and it can wake fast, while a dormouse cools almost to the temperature of its nest; whether to call the bear's sleep true hibernation is still argued. Who acts: winter sleep, body, bear, dormouse. 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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 (winter sleep, body, bear, dormouse), 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:11 # text = A bear's winter sleep is lighter than a dormouse's: its body cools only a few degrees and it can wake fast, while a dormouse cools almost to the temperature of its nest; whether to call the bear's sleep true hibernation is still argued. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dormouse dormouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 24 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dormouse dormouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 almost almost ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 38 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:csubj:pass 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 hibernation hibernation NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 48 still still ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | a bear's winter sleep | | | | | than a dormouse; light *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cool** | present | bear's body | a few degrees | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wake** | can | bear | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool** | present | a dormouse | | | | | to the temperature of bear's nest | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | | the bear's sleep | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme hibernation=Result | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | | 7 | **sleep** | | a bear | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **sleep** | | the bear | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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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