How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 10

A normal film shows about 25 pictures every second, while high-speed cameras film thousands a second, so one fast second can last for minutes when played back.

Who acts: normal film, speed cameras, one fast second · What happens: show, film, last, play back · To what, where: 25 pictures, thousands

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 (normal film, speed cameras, one fast second), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
2	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 film	amod
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 25	advmod
6	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 pictures	nummod
7	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shows	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 second	det
9	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 film	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 film	mark
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speed	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 high	punct
14	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cameras	compound
15	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 film	nsubj
16	film	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	advcl
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 film	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 second	det
19	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thousands	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fast	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 last	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 second	nummod
23	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 second	amod
24	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 last	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 last	aux
26	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shows	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 minutes	case
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 last	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 played	advmod
30	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 last	advcl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 played	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	show	present	a normal film	25 pictures	second	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Recipient
2	film	present	speed cameras	thousands a second		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
3	last	can	one fast second		minute	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	play back	participle	one fast second not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:10.

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 ×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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