How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 9
Camera traps are boxes that take pictures or film when an animal passes in front of them; they can wait for months in places people rarely go, and they have filmed rare animals like snow leopards.
Who acts: Camera traps, boxes, animal, animals, people · What happens: be, take, pass, wait, go, film · To what, where: boxes, pictures, front, places, rare 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 (Camera traps, boxes, animal, animals), 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 | Camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traps | compound |
| 2 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boxes | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boxes | cop |
| 4 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boxes | acl:relcl |
| 7 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 film | cc |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pictures | conj |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 passes | mark |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passes | nsubj |
| 13 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passes | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 passes | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 months | case |
| 23 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wait | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wait | obl |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 places | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 filmed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 filmed | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 filmed | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 filmed | aux |
| 33 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 wait | conj |
| 34 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 animals | amod |
| 35 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 filmed | obj |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 leopards | case |
| 37 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 leopards | compound |
| 38 | leopards | leopard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 animals | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boxes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Camera traps | boxes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | boxes | pictures or film | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | a animal | front of traps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | wait | can | animals = animal | places | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 5 | go | present | people | places not said here | rarely property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | |||
| 6 | film | present · perfect | people | rare animals | like snow leopards | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:9.
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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