The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 5

An adult capybara is the largest living rodent, up to about 60 kg, which is too big for most caimans; caimans mostly eat fish, snails, crabs and small animals.

Who acts: adult capybara, 60 kg, caimans · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: largest living rodent, fish

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 (adult capybara, 60 kg, caimans), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 capybara	det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capybara	amod
3	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rodent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rodent	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rodent	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 rodent	amod
7	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rodent	amod
8	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kg	punct
10	up	up	ADV	_	14 kg	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 up	fixed
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 60	advmod
13	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 kg	nummod
14	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rodent	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 big	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 big	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 big	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 big	advmod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kg	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 caimans	case
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 caimans	amod
22	caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 big	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 caimans	punct
24	caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eat	nsubj
25	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	26 eat	advmod
26	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rodent	parataxis
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 snails	punct
29	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fish	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crabs	punct
31	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fish	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 animals	cc
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 animals	amod
34	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fish	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rodent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a adult capybara	the largest living rodent	60 kg obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	is	present	60 kg		for most caimans; big property	tree rules
3	eat	present	caimans	fish and snails and crabs and small animals	mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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