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title: Real bears raid bees' nests for the grubs as much as for the honey,… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real bears raid bees' nests for the grubs as much as for the honey, because the grubs are full of protein and fat; thick fur protects most of the bear from stings, but not its nose. Who acts: Real bears, grubs, thick fur. A sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth a
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# Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 13

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Real bears raid bees' nests for the grubs as much as for the honey, because the grubs are full of protein and fat; thick fur protects most of the bear from stings, but not its nose.

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**Who acts:** Real bears, grubs, thick fur · **What happens:** raid, be, protect · **To what, where:** nests, most

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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 (Real bears, grubs, thick fur), 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:13
# text = Real bears raid bees' nests for the grubs as much as for the honey, because the grubs are full of protein and fat; thick fur protects most of the bear from stings, but not its nose.
# 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 ×3
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raid	raid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grubs	grub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grubs	grub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **raid** | present | Real bears | bees's nests |  |  |  | for the grubs; bear's nose *obl* | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Location for grub=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the grubs |  |  |  |  | of protein and fat; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | present | thick fur | most of the bear |  |  |  | from stings | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary from sting=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): R5-strong ×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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