--- title: And the cute pictures of a capybara sitting on a «crocodile» are usu… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics description: And the cute pictures of a capybara sitting on a «crocodile» are usually a caiman in South America, a relative of alligators that has often just eaten and doesn't bother with a big rodent. Who acts: capybara, cute pictures, relative. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capybara, cute pictures, relative), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:4 # text = And the cute pictures of a capybara sitting on a «crocodile» are usually a caiman in South America, a relative of alligators that has often just eaten and doesn't bother with a big rodent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 029-crocodiles-and-alligators.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cute cute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 bother bother VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | a capybara *not said here* | a crocodile | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the cute pictures of a capybara | a caiman | | South America | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present · perfect | a relative of alligators | | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **bother** | present · do-support | a relative of alligators *not said here* | | | | | with a big rodent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Crocodiles and alligators, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/3/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/)