How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 14

Infrared and heat cameras film at night by catching light or warmth our eyes cannot see; warm animals glow bright on heat cameras, while cold ground looks dark.

Who acts: Infrared cameras, eyes, warm animals, cold ground · What happens: film, catch, not see, glow, look · To what, where: light, heat cameras

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 (Infrared cameras, eyes, warm animals, cold ground), 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	Infrared	Infrared	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cameras	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 heat	cc
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Infrared	conj
4	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 film	nsubj
5	film	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 catching	mark
9	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 film	advcl
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catching	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 warmth	cc
12	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	conj
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 catching	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 glow	punct
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animals	amod
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glow	nsubj
21	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 film	conj
22	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 glow	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 cameras	case
24	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cameras	compound
25	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glow	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looks	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 looks	mark
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ground	amod
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looks	nsubj
30	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 glow	advcl
31	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looks	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 film	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	present	Infrared cameras			night		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	catch	gerund	Infrared cameras not said here	light or warmth				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	not see	can	our eyes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	glow	present	warm animals		heat cameras		bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on camera=Location
5	look	present	cold ground				dark property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: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. 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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