The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 14
At Izu Shaboten Zoo in Japan, keepers have given capybaras warm baths in winter since the 1980s, and yuzu fruits are often floated in the water; capybaras come from warm places and love water.
Who acts: keepers, capybaras · What happens: give, float, come, love · To what, where: warm baths, capybaras, Izu Zoo, yuzu fruits, water, warm places
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 (keepers, capybaras), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Zoo | case |
| 2 | Izu | Izu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zoo | compound |
| 3 | Shaboten | Shaboten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Izu | flat |
| 4 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Japan | case |
| 6 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zoo | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Zoo | punct |
| 8 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | iobj |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baths | amod |
| 13 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 winter | case |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 18 1980s | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 1980s | det |
| 18 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 given | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 floated | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 floated | cc |
| 21 | yuzu | yuzu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fruits | compound |
| 22 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 floated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 floated | aux:pass |
| 24 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 floated | advmod |
| 25 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 given | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 floated | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 30 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 come | nsubj |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | parataxis |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 places | case |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 places | amod |
| 34 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 come | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 love | cc |
| 36 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | conj |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 love | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | keepers | warm baths | capybaras | Izu Zoo in Japan | since the 1980s; winter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent capybara=Recipient bath=Theme at zoo=Asset | |
| 2 | float | present · passive | yuzu fruits | the water | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | present | capybaras | warm places | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | love | present | capybaras not said here | water | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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:14.
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 ×1, 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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