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title: Real bears stand on two legs only to look or sniff; they can walk a… — Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real bears stand on two legs only to look or sniff; they can walk a few steps upright, but it is slow and awkward, and they walk on four legs. Who acts: Real bears, animals, bear. A sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» of the biology cours
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# Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 19

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Real bears stand on two legs only to look or sniff; they can walk a few steps upright, but it is slow and awkward, and they walk on four legs.

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**Who acts:** Real bears, animals, bear · **What happens:** stand, look, sniff, walk, be · **To what, where:** two legs, few steps, four legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (Real bears, animals, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:19
# text = Real bears stand on two legs only to look or sniff; they can walk a few steps upright, but it is slow and awkward, and they walk on four legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **stand** | present | Real bears |  |  | two legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Real bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sniff** | infinitive | Real bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk** | can | animals *= animal* | a few steps |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | bear |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **walk** | present | animals *= animal* |  |  | four legs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |

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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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:19`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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