--- title: Most bears eat mostly plants, such as berries, roots, nuts and grass… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: Most bears eat mostly plants, such as berries, roots, nuts and grass; a grizzly in late summer is reported to eat many thousands of berries a day, and only the polar bear eats mostly meat. Who acts: Most bears, polar bear. 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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 (Most bears, polar bear), 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:14 # text = Most bears eat mostly plants, such as berries, roots, nuts and grass; a grizzly in late summer is reported to eat many thousands of berries a day, and only the polar bear eats mostly meat. # 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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 grizzly grizzly NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Most bears | plants and nuts and grass | | | | such berries and roots; mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 2 | **report** | present · passive | | a grizzly in late summer | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | many thousands of berries | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | present | the polar bear | meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | 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:14`. **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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