How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 3
They sit in hides made of branches, leave camera traps that film by themselves, fly quiet drones overhead and even build robot animals with cameras inside.
Who acts: makers, camera traps · What happens: sit, make, leave, film, fly, build · To what, where: hides, camera traps, quiet drones, robot animals
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 (makers, camera traps), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hides | case |
| 4 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sit | obl |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hides | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 10 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 traps | compound |
| 11 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 film | nsubj |
| 13 | film | film | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 traps | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 themselves | case |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 film | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fly | punct |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 18 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 drones | amod |
| 19 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fly | obj |
| 20 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 17 fly | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 build | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 build | advmod |
| 23 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fly | conj |
| 24 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 animals | compound |
| 25 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 build | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 cameras | case |
| 27 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 animals | nmod |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 23 build | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | makers = maker | hides | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hide=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | hides not said here | of branches | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | makers = maker not said here | camera traps | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | film | present | camera traps | by makers = maker | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by themselves=Destination | ||||
| 5 | fly | present | makers = maker not said here | quiet drones | overhead property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drone=Theme | |||
| 6 | build | present | makers = maker not said here | robot animals | with cameras; inside property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent animal=Theme with camera=Source |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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