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title: Zoos can mix capybaras, rheas, tapirs and anteaters, which live toge… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoos can mix capybaras, rheas, tapirs and anteaters, which live together in the wild and eat different foods; capybaras, the biggest rodents in the world, are so calm that birds and other animals sit on them. Who acts: Zoos, anteaters, capybaras, birds. A sentence of the lesson «The South American a
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# The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 9

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Zoos can mix capybaras, rheas, tapirs and anteaters, which live together in the wild and eat different foods; capybaras, the biggest rodents in the world, are so calm that birds and other animals sit on them.

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**Who acts:** Zoos, anteaters, capybaras, birds · **What happens:** mix, live together, eat, be, sit · **To what, where:** capybaras, wild, different foods

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 (Zoos, anteaters, capybaras, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson:9
# text = Zoos can mix capybaras, rheas, tapirs and anteaters, which live together in the wild and eat different foods; capybaras, the biggest rodents in the world, are so calm that birds and other animals sit on them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	rheas	rhea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tapirs	tapir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	anteaters	anteater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
40	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | can | Zoos | capybaras and rheas and tapirs and anteaters |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Patient |
| 2 | **live together** | present | anteaters |  |  | the wild |  | together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | present | anteaters *not said here* | different foods |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | capybaras |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | present | birds and other animals |  |  |  |  | on capybaras *= capybara* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location |

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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.

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**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): 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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