The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 16

Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.

Who acts: Caimans, caiman · What happens: bask, let, escape, cool down, not be · To what, where: threat

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 (Caimans, caiman), 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	Caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bask	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crocodiles	cc
3	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Caimans	conj
4	bask	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 open	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouths	nmod:poss
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 open	nsubj
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bask	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bask	advcl
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 escape	compound
12	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cool	cc
14	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 escape	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cool	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 threat	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threat	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 threat	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 threat	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 threat	det
21	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bask	parataxis
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 yawn	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yawn	det
24	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threat	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bask	present	Caimans and crocodiles		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	let	to-infinitive	Caimans and crocodiles not said here		tree rules
3	escape	infinitive	Caimans and crocodiles not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cool down	infinitive	Caimans and crocodiles not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not is a	present	caiman	a threat or a yawn	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:16.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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