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title: The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal i… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms. Who acts: European bison, big bull. 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 wi
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 6

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The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.

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**Who acts:** European bison, big bull · **What happens:** be, weigh · **To what, where:** heaviest land animal, Europe, 900 kilograms

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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 (European bison, big bull), 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:6
# text = The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	zubr	zubr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
19	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound
20	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	900	900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | present | the European bison | the heaviest land animal |  | Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weigh** | present | a big bull | 900 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |

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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: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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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