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title: Bears walk on the whole sole of the foot, like us, which gives them… — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bears walk on the whole sole of the foot, like us, which gives them balance and lets them stand on two legs; but a bear's biggest toe is on the outside of its foot, the opposite of ours. Who acts: Bears, claws, biggest toe. A sentence of the lesson «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth
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# Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety, sentence 9

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Bears walk on the whole sole of the foot, like us, which gives them balance and lets them stand on two legs; but a bear's biggest toe is on the outside of its foot, the opposite of ours.

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**Who acts:** Bears, claws, biggest toe · **What happens:** walk, give, let, stand, be · **To what, where:** whole sole, balance, claws, two legs, outside

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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 (Bears, claws, biggest toe), 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:9
# text = Bears walk on the whole sole of the foot, like us, which gives them balance and lets them stand on two legs; but a bear's biggest toe is on the outside of its foot, the opposite of ours.
# 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 ×1
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:conj
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	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 | Bears |  |  | the whole sole of the foot |  | like us | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sole=Trajectory |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | balance | claws *= claw* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient balance=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | present |  | claws *= claw* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive | claws *= claw* *not said here* |  |  | two legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | a bear's biggest toe |  |  | the outside |  | of bear's foot | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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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