The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 3
Caimans, cousins of alligators, sometimes do catch capybaras, mostly young ones, so the truth is calm, not friendship: a big capybara is a hard catch, a sunbathing caiman is not very hungry, and the capybara is ready to run.
Who acts: truth, big capybara, sunbathing caiman, capybara · What happens: catch, be, not be, run · To what, where: capybaras, hard catch
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 (truth, big capybara, sunbathing caiman, 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 | Caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousins | punct |
| 3 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Caimans | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 alligators | case |
| 5 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cousins | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 catch | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 catch | aux |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Caimans | conj |
| 10 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 catch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ones | punct |
| 12 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 ones | advmod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 capybaras | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 calm | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 calm | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calm | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 calm | cop |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Caimans | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friendship | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 friendship | advmod |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calm | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 catch | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 capybara | det |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 capybara | amod |
| 27 | capybara | capybara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 catch | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 catch | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 catch | det |
| 30 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 catch | amod |
| 31 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Caimans | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hungry | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 caiman | det |
| 34 | sunbathing | sunbathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 caiman | compound |
| 35 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hungry | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 hungry | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 hungry | advmod |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 hungry | advmod |
| 39 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 catch | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ready | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ready | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 capybara | det |
| 43 | capybara | capybara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ready | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 ready | cop |
| 45 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hungry | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 run | mark |
| 47 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 ready | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Caimans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · do-support | capybaras | sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the truth | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a big capybara | a hard catch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | a sunbathing caiman | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the capybara | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | run | to-infinitive | the capybara not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:3.
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. 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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