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title: Caimans rarely attack big grown capybaras, which are too big and ale… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Caimans rarely attack big grown capybaras, which are too big and alert, and the two often share river banks. Who acts: Caimans, big grown capybaras, two. A sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 11

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Caimans rarely attack big grown capybaras, which are too big and alert, and the two often share river banks.

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**Who acts:** Caimans, big grown capybaras, two · **What happens:** attack, grow, be, share · **To what, where:** big grown capybaras, river banks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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, big grown capybaras, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:11
# text = Caimans rarely attack big grown capybaras, which are too big and alert, and the two often share river banks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Caimans	caiman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | Caimans | big grown capybaras |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | big grown capybaras |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *speech: other* |  | big grown capybaras *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **share** | present | the two | river banks |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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