Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 4

And the cute pictures of a capybara sitting on a «crocodile» are usually a caiman in South America, a relative of alligators that has often just eaten and doesn't bother with a big rodent.

Who acts: capybara, cute pictures, relative · What happens: sit, be, eat, not bother · To what, where: crocodile, caiman, South America

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» 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 (capybara, cute pictures, relative), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 caiman	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pictures	det
3	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pictures	amod
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caiman	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 capybara	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 capybara	det
7	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pictures	nmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 capybara	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 »	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crocodile	det
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 crocodile	punct
12	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 crocodile	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 caiman	cop
15	usually	usually	ADV	_	17 caiman	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 caiman	det
17	caiman	caiman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 America	case
19	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 America	compound
20	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 caiman	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caiman	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 relative	det
23	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caiman	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 alligators	case
25	alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 relative	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 eaten	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 eaten	aux
28	often	often	ADV	_	30 eaten	advmod
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 eaten	advmod
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 relative	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bother	cc
32	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 bother	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 bother	advmod
34	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 eaten	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 rodent	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rodent	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rodent	amod
38	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bother	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 caiman	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	a capybara not said here	a crocodile			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the cute pictures of a capybara	a caiman	South America	usually property	tree rules
3	eat	present · perfect	a relative of alligators			often property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not bother	present · do-support	a relative of alligators not said here			with a big rodent	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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