How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 8

Wildlife film-makers sit in hides so animals carry on as if nobody is there, because animals that see or smell people often stop what they are doing or run away; some crews waited in hides for weeks to film one short scene.

Who acts: Wildlife film makers, animals, nobody, people, crews · What happens: sit, carry on, be, see, smell, stop · To what, where: hides, people, one short scene

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 (Wildlife film makers, animals, nobody, people), 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	Wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makers	compound
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 film	punct
4	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	nsubj
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hides	case
7	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 carry	advmod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carry	nsubj
10	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 carry	compound:prt
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 there	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 there	mark
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 there	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 carry	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 stop	mark
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stop	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 see	nsubj
21	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 animals	acl:relcl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 smell	cc
23	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 see	conj
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smell	obj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 stop	advmod
26	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 doing	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 doing	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	aux
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stop	xcomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 run	cc
32	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stop	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 run	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 crews	det
36	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 waited	nsubj
37	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 hides	case
39	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 waited	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 weeks	case
41	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 waited	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 film	mark
43	film	film	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 waited	advcl
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 scene	nummod
45	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 scene	amod
46	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 film	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Wildlife film makers		hides			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hide=Location
2	carry on	present	animals					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	nobody				there property	tree rules
4	see	present	animals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	smell	present	animals not said here	people				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	stop	present	animals				often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	do	present · progressive	people					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	run away	present	animals not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	wait	past	some crews		hides	week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hide=Location
10	film	to-infinitive	some crews not said here	one short scene				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=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:8.

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): 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.

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