--- title: Bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter, tiny and blind, often un… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: Bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter, tiny and blind, often under half a kilogram, and grow fast on rich milk before spring; a newborn giant panda is about a thousand times lighter than its mother. Who acts: newborn giant panda. 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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 (newborn giant panda), 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:12 # text = Bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter, tiny and blind, often under half a kilogram, and grow fast on rich milk before spring; a newborn giant panda is about a thousand times lighter than its mother. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 midwinter midwinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 19 det:predet _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 kilogram kilogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | Bear cubs | | the den | | in midwinter; under half kilogram | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | present | | | | rich milk | spring | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | a newborn giant panda | | | | time | than bear's mother; light *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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 ×2, 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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