--- title: Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while bl… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics description: Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while black bears have shorter, curved claws for climbing. Who acts: Grizzly claws, black bears. 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 wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/) / 8 # Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 8 Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while black bears have shorter, curved claws for climbing. **Who acts:** Grizzly claws, black bears · **What happens:** be, dig, have · **To what, where:** shorter curved claws 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 (Grizzly claws, black bears), 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:8 # text = Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while black bears have shorter, curved claws for climbing. # 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): no change 1 Grizzly grizzly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 16 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 curved curve ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | can | Grizzly claws | | | | | 10 centimetres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dig** | gerund | Grizzly claws *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | black bears | shorter curved claws | | | | for climbing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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:8`. **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): no change. **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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