The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 11

In zoos capybaras let many animals sit on them, but zoo animals are well fed; some viral videos are staged, and in the wild a capybara can bite hard with its big front teeth.

Who acts: capybaras, many animals, capybara · What happens: let, sit, feed, stage, bite · To what, where: zoos, zoo animals, viral videos, wild

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 (capybaras, many animals, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 zoos	case
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	obl
3	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fed	cc
12	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 animals	compound
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fed	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fed	aux:pass
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 fed	advmod
16	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 let	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 staged	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 videos	det
19	viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 videos	amod
20	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 staged	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 staged	aux:pass
22	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bite	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bite	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wild	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wild	det
27	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bite	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 capybara	det
29	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bite	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bite	aux
31	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
32	hard	hard	ADV	_	31 bite	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 teeth	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 teeth	nmod:poss
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 teeth	amod
36	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 teeth	amod
37	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bite	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	present	capybaras		zoos		tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	many animals			on zoos = zoo	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location
3	feed	present · passive		zoo animals		well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	stage	present · passive		some viral videos			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	bite	can	a capybara		the wild	with capybara's big front teeth; hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument

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:11.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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