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title: You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling mi… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics
description: You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes. Who acts: You, snow leopard. A sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 0

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You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes.

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**Who acts:** You, snow leopard · **What happens:** watch, creep · **To what, where:** snow leopard, cliff

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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 (You, snow leopard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:0
# text = You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	thrilling	thrilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **watch** | present | You | a snow leopard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | infinitive | a snow leopard *not said here* |  |  | a cliff | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across cliff=Trajectory |

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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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**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:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:0`.

**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, 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.

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

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