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title: On bear trails people talk or sing so a bear hears them and moves aw… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: On bear trails people talk or sing so a bear hears them and moves away, pack food tightly and never feed bears; a bear standing on its back legs is usually just looking and smelling. Who acts: people, bear. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown be
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 16

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On bear trails people talk or sing so a bear hears them and moves away, pack food tightly and never feed bears; a bear standing on its back legs is usually just looking and smelling.

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**Who acts:** people, bear · **What happens:** talk, sing, hear, move away, pack, not feed · **To what, where:** bear trails, people, food, bears, back legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (people, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:16
# text = On bear trails people talk or sing so a bear hears them and moves away, pack food tightly and never feed bears; a bear standing on its back legs is usually just looking and smelling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pack	pack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
27	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod
31	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | people |  |  | bear trails |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | present | a bear | people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **move away** | present | a bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pack** | infinitive | a bear *not said here* | food |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **feed** | infinitive | a bear *not said here* | bears |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient |
| 7 | **stand** | gerund | a bear *not said here* |  |  | food's back legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 8 | **look** | present · progressive | a bear |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **smell** | gerund | a bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:16`.

**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, 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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