The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 7

Caimans, especially the big black caiman, sometimes catch and eat capybaras, mostly young ones near the water; jaguars, anacondas and pumas hunt them too.

Who acts: Caimans, jaguars · What happens: catch, eat, hunt · To what, where: capybaras, pumas

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, jaguars), 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	10 catch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caiman	punct
3	especially	especially	ADV	_	7 caiman	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caiman	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caiman	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caiman	amod
7	caiman	caiman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Caimans	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 catch	advmod
10	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 hunt	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	conj
13	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ones	punct
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	17 ones	advmod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ones	amod
17	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 capybaras	appos
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ones	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 jaguars	punct
22	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hunt	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 anacondas	punct
24	anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 jaguars	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pumas	cc
26	pumas	puma	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 jaguars	conj
27	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hunt	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 hunt	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	infinitive	Caimans		sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	Caimans not said here	capybaras		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Patient
3	hunt	present	jaguars and anacondas and pumas	pumas = puma		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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