The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 13

To get every bit of goodness, capybaras eat some of their own soft droppings in the morning, so the food passes through the gut twice, as rabbits do.

Who acts: capybaras, food, rabbits · What happens: get, eat, pass, do · To what, where: bit, some, gut

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, food, rabbits), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	advcl
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 goodness	case
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
8	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 eat	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 droppings	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 droppings	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 droppings	amod
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 droppings	amod
15	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 some	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passes	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 passes	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passes	nsubj
23	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	parataxis
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 gut	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gut	det
26	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passes	obl
27	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 passes	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
30	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 do	nsubj
31	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 passes	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eat	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	get	to-infinitive	capybaras not said here	every bit of goodness				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus
2	eat	present	capybaras	some		morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	pass	present	the food		the gut		twice property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gut=Location
4	do	present	rabbits					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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 ×2. 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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