The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 1
It is famous for staying calm while birds, ducks and even monkeys sit on its back, and for photos of it resting right beside a basking caiman as if they were best friends.
Who acts: capybara, birds, photos, monkeys · What happens: be, stay, sit, rest · To what, where: back, basking caiman, best friends
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, birds, photos, monkeys), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 famous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 famous | cop |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 staying | mark |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 famous | advcl |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 staying | xcomp |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 sit | mark |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ducks | punct |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sit | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 monkeys | advmod |
| 13 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 famous | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 photos | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 photos | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 photos | case |
| 21 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 famous | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 photos | nmod |
| 24 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 photos | acl |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 caiman | advmod |
| 26 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 29 caiman | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 caiman | det |
| 28 | basking | basking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 caiman | compound |
| 29 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resting | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 friends | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 friends | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 friends | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 friends | cop |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 friends | amod |
| 35 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 resting | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | capybara | famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | capybara not said here | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | birds and ducks | capybara's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | photos of back not said here | a basking caiman | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside caiman=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | monkeys = monkey | best friends | tree rules |
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:1.
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. 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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