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title: It walks flat on the whole sole of its foot like we do, with five lo… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics
description: It walks flat on the whole sole of its foot like we do, with five long claws on each paw that never pull in, and it spends winter in a den, sleeping off the hungry months. Who acts: bear, five long claws. A sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» o
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# Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 2

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It walks flat on the whole sole of its foot like we do, with five long claws on each paw that never pull in, and it spends winter in a den, sleeping off the hungry months.

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**Who acts:** bear, five long claws · **What happens:** walk, not pull in, spend, sleep off · **To what, where:** whole sole, den

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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 (bear, five long claws), 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:2
# text = It walks flat on the whole sole of its foot like we do, with five long claws on each paw that never pull in, and it spends winter in a den, sleeping off the hungry months.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **walk** | present | bear |  |  | the whole sole of bear's foot |  | with five long claws on each paw; flat *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sole=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **pull in** | present | five long claws on each paw |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spend** | present | bear |  |  | a den | winter |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep off** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent month=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): 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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