--- title: Climbing a tree is not a safe escape, because black bears climb very… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: Climbing a tree is not a safe escape, because black bears climb very well and young brown bears can too; advice for meeting a bear differs for each kind of bear, so park rangers explain it for their area. Who acts: Climbing, black bears, advice, park rangers. 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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 (Climbing, black bears, advice, park rangers), 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:19 # text = Climbing a tree is not a safe escape, because black bears climb very well and young brown bears can too; advice for meeting a bear differs for each kind of bear, so park rangers explain it for their area. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 23 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 28 differs differ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 rangers ranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | gerund | | a tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Climbing | a safe escape | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **climb** | present | black bears | | | | | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | gerund | advice *not said here* | a bear | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent | | 5 | **differ** | present | | | | | | for each kind of bear | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | park rangers | bear | | | | for rangers's area | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:19`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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