How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 1

Behind those minutes there may be months of a crew sitting in freezing tents, hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film that nobody ever sees.

Who acts: months, crew, nobody · What happens: be, sit, see · To what, where: freezing tents, film

This is a sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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 (months, crew, nobody), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 minutes	det
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	obl
4	there	there	PRON	_	6 be	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 crew	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crew	det
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 months	nmod
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 crew	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tents	case
13	freezing	freezing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tents	amod
14	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cameras	punct
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cameras	amod
17	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tents	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 rocks	case
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cameras	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hundreds	cc
21	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rocks	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 hours	case
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hundreds	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 film	case
25	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hours	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sees	obj
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 sees	nsubj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 sees	advmod
29	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 film	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	may	months of a crew		there	minute	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	gerund	a crew not said here		freezing tents and hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location
3	see	present	nobody	film		ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:1.

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 ×6, 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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