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title: Behind those minutes there may be months of a crew sitting in freezi… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind those minutes there may be months of a crew sitting in freezing tents, hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film that nobody ever sees. Who acts: months, crew, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» of
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# How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 1

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Behind those minutes there may be months of a crew sitting in freezing tents, hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film that nobody ever sees.

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**Who acts:** months, crew, nobody · **What happens:** be, sit, see · **To what, where:** freezing tents, film

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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 (months, crew, nobody), 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:1
# text = Behind those minutes there may be months of a crew sitting in freezing tents, hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film that nobody ever sees.
# 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
4	there	there	PRON	EX	_	6	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:expl
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	freezing	freezing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **be** | may | months of a crew |  |  | there | minute |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | a crew *not said here* |  |  | freezing tents and hidden cameras on rocks and hundreds of hours of film |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location |
| 3 | **see** | present | nobody | film |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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:1`.

**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 ×6, 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/).

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