The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 10

Birds such as cattle tyrants and yellow-headed caracaras ride on capybaras and eat ticks and flies; both gain, which scientists call mutualism, and the capybara may even lie still or roll over for them.

Who acts: Birds, both, scientists, capybara · What happens: head, ride, eat, gain, call, lie · To what, where: capybaras, ticks, mutualism · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Birds, both, scientists, 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ride	nsubj
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 tyrants	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	_	5 tyrants	compound
5	tyrants	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Birds	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 caracaras	cc
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 headed	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 yellow	punct
9	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 caracaras	amod
10	caracaras	caracara	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tyrants	conj
11	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 capybaras	case
13	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ride	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ride	conj
16	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eat	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flies	cc
18	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ticks	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gain	punct
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 gain	nsubj
21	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 call	obj
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gain	parataxis
26	mutualism	mutualism	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lie	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lie	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 capybara	det
30	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lie	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 lie	aux
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 lie	advmod
33	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ride	parataxis
34	still	still	ADV	_	33 lie	advmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 roll	cc
36	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 lie	conj
37	over	over	ADV	_	36 roll	compound:prt
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 roll	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ride	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	head	participle						vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	ride	present	Birds such cattle tyrants and headed caracaras		capybaras			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	Birds such cattle tyrants and headed caracaras not said here	ticks and flies				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient
4	gain	present	both					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	call	present	scientists	mutualism				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme mutualism=Result
6	lie	may	the capybara			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	roll over	infinitive	the capybara not said here				for scientists = scientist	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:042-the-capybara.lesson:10.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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