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title: Bears sleep for months in winter, but their body cools only a little… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Bears sleep for months in winter, but their body cools only a little, so many scientists call it a lighter winter sleep. Who acts: Bears, body, many scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Migration and hibernation, sentence 14

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Bears sleep for months in winter, but their body cools only a little, so many scientists call it a lighter winter sleep.

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**Who acts:** Bears, body, many scientists · **What happens:** sleep, cool, call · **To what, where:** little, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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, body, many scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:14
# text = Bears sleep for months in winter, but their body cools only a little, so many scientists call it a lighter winter sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 028-migration-and-hibernation.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
25	.	.	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 | **sleep** | present | Bears |  |  |  | month; winter |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cool** | present | Bears's body | a little |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | present | many scientists | body |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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