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title: Camera traps take pictures when an animal moves past, which helps co… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Camera traps take pictures when an animal moves past, which helps count rare animals such as snow leopards, and each snow leopard can be recognised by its own spot pattern. Who acts: Camera traps, animal, own spot pattern, film. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin,
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 12

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Camera traps take pictures when an animal moves past, which helps count rare animals such as snow leopards, and each snow leopard can be recognised by its own spot pattern.

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**Who acts:** Camera traps, animal, own spot pattern, film · **What happens:** take, move, help, count, recognise, pattern · **To what, where:** pictures, rare animals, snow leopard

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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 (Camera traps, animal, own spot pattern, film), 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:12
# text = Camera traps take pictures when an animal moves past, which helps count rare animals such as snow leopards, and each snow leopard can be recognised by its own spot pattern.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	past	past	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **take** | present | Camera traps | pictures |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | a animal |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive |  | rare animals |  |  |  | such snow leopards | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **recognise** | can · passive | film's own spot pattern | each snow leopard |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **pattern** |  | film |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=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): R3-conj-first ×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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