The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 6
The famous photos are almost always of caimans, not true crocodiles, because capybaras live only in Central and South America, in wetlands such as the Pantanal.
Who acts: famous photos, capybaras · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Central
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 (famous photos, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 photos | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 photos | amod |
| 3 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 caimans | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 caimans | cop |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 always | advmod |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 caimans | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 caimans | case |
| 8 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crocodiles | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 crocodiles | advmod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crocodiles | amod |
| 12 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 caimans | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 15 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 caimans | advcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 live | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Central | case |
| 19 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 South | cc |
| 21 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Central | conj |
| 22 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Central | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wetlands | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wetlands | case |
| 25 | wetlands | wetland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Central | conj |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 29 Pantanal | case |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 such | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Pantanal | det |
| 29 | Pantanal | Pantanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wetlands | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caimans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the famous photos | of caimans and true crocodiles; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | capybaras | Central and South and wetlands such the Pantanal | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in central=Location |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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