--- title: A bear's sense of smell is one of the best of any animal, said to be… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: A bear's sense of smell is one of the best of any animal, said to be several times better than a bloodhound's; the inside of its nose has a huge folded area full of smell sensors, and a polar bear is reported to smell a seal from more than a kilometre away. Who acts: sense, inside, 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 (sense, inside, 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:6 # text = A bear's sense of smell is one of the best of any animal, said to be several times better than a bloodhound's; the inside of its nose has a huge folded area full of smell sensors, and a polar bear is reported to smell a seal from more than a kilometre away. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 parataxis _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 19 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bloodhound bloodhound NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nmod 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 from from ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 56 advmod _ _ 54 than than ADP IN _ 53 fixed _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:obl 57 away away ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a bear's sense of smell | one | | | | of the best of any animal | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | than a bloodhound; good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | the inside of bear's nose | a huge folded area | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | | 5 | **fold** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **report** | present · passive | | a polar bear | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **smell** | to-infinitive | | a seal | | | | away *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus | | 8 | **sense** | | a bear | smell | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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:6`. **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 ×2. **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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