How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 17
Some film-makers built animal-shaped robots with cameras, such as a robot penguin, because animals often ignore a robot that looks and moves a bit like them.
Who acts: film makers, animals, robot · What happens: build, shape, ignore, look, move · To what, where: animal shaped robots, robot, bit
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 (film makers, animals, robot), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 makers | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 film | punct |
| 4 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 robots | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 animal | punct |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 robots | amod |
| 9 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cameras | case |
| 11 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 robots | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 penguin | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 penguin | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 penguin | det |
| 16 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 penguin | compound |
| 17 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 robots | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ignore | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 ignore | mark |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ignore | nsubj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 ignore | advmod |
| 22 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 robot | det |
| 24 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ignore | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 looks | nsubj |
| 26 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 robot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 moves | cc |
| 28 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 looks | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bit | det |
| 30 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moves | obl |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 moves | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | some film makers | animal shaped robots and a robot penguin | with cameras | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent robot=Theme with camera=Source | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | ignore | present | animals | a robot | often property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robot=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | present | a robot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | move | present | a robot not said here | a bit | like animals = animal | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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