Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 11
Caimans rarely attack big grown capybaras, which are too big and alert, and the two often share river banks.
Who acts: Caimans, big grown capybaras, two · What happens: attack, grow, be, share · To what, where: big grown capybaras, river banks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (Caimans, big grown capybaras, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attack | nsubj |
| 2 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 3 attack | advmod |
| 3 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 capybaras | amod |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 capybaras | amod |
| 6 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attack | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 big | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 big | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 big | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 big | advmod |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 capybaras | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 alert | cc |
| 13 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 big | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 share | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 share | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 share | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 share | advmod |
| 19 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attack | conj |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 banks | compound |
| 21 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 share | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attack | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Caimans | big grown capybaras | rarely property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | big grown capybaras | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be speech: other | big grown capybaras not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | share | present | the two | river banks | often property | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC 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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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