The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 17
A reptile does not burn food to keep warm, so a well-fed caiman may go days or even weeks without a big meal.
Who acts: reptile, fed caiman · What happens: not burn, keep, feed, go · To what, where: food
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 (reptile, fed 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reptile | det |
| 2 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 burn | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 burn | advmod |
| 5 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burn | advcl |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 caiman | det |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 fed | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 caiman | amod |
| 16 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burn | parataxis |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 weeks | cc |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 weeks | advmod |
| 22 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 meal | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 meal | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meal | amod |
| 26 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not burn | present · do-support | a reptile | food | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | a reptile not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feed | participle | well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | may | a fed caiman | day | without a big meal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:17.
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, 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.
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