The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 0

The capybara is the biggest rodent in the world, a giant cousin of the guinea pig as heavy as a grown man, that spends its day chewing grass by South American rivers and ponds.

Who acts: capybara · What happens: be, grow, spend, chew · To what, where: biggest rodent, world, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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 (capybara), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capybara	det
2	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rodent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rodent	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rodent	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 rodent	amod
6	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rodent	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cousin	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cousin	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cousin	amod
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rodent	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 pig	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pig	det
16	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pig	compound
17	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cousin	nmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 heavy	advmod
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cousin	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heavy	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spends	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 spends	nsubj
26	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 capybara	acl:relcl
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 day	nmod:poss
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spends	obj
29	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 spends	advcl
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chewing	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 rivers	case
32	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 rivers	compound
33	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rivers	amod
34	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 chewing	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ponds	cc
36	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rivers	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rodent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the capybara	the biggest rodent	the world			tree rules
2	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spend	present	the capybara			day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chew	gerund	the capybara not said here	grass			by South American rivers and ponds	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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:042-the-capybara.lesson:0.

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 ×3. 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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