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title: Wildlife filmmakers wait quietly in hides for weeks or months and us… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wildlife filmmakers wait quietly in hides for weeks or months and use hidden cameras, drones and night cameras so as not to disturb animals; a single minute of film can take weeks. Who acts: Wildlife filmmakers, single minute. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, t
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 11

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Wildlife filmmakers wait quietly in hides for weeks or months and use hidden cameras, drones and night cameras so as not to disturb animals; a single minute of film can take weeks.

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**Who acts:** Wildlife filmmakers, single minute · **What happens:** wait, use, not disturb, take · **To what, where:** hides, hidden cameras, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Wildlife filmmakers, single minute), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:11
# text = Wildlife filmmakers wait quietly in hides for weeks or months and use hidden cameras, drones and night cameras so as not to disturb animals; a single minute of film can take weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	filmmakers	filmmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
34	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **wait** | present | Wildlife filmmakers |  |  | hides | week | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hide=Location |
| 2 | **use** | present | Wildlife filmmakers *not said here* | hidden cameras and drones and night cameras |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **disturb** | to-infinitive | Wildlife filmmakers *not said here* | animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 4 | **take** | can | a single minute of film |  |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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