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title: They sit in hides made of branches, leave camera traps that film by… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics
description: They sit in hides made of branches, leave camera traps that film by themselves, fly quiet drones overhead and even build robot animals with cameras inside. Who acts: makers, camera traps. A sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» o
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# How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 3

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They sit in hides made of branches, leave camera traps that film by themselves, fly quiet drones overhead and even build robot animals with cameras inside.

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**Who acts:** makers, camera traps · **What happens:** sit, make, leave, film, fly, build · **To what, where:** hides, camera traps, quiet drones, robot animals

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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 (makers, camera traps), 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:3
# text = They sit in hides made of branches, leave camera traps that film by themselves, fly quiet drones overhead and even build robot animals with cameras inside.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
10	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	film	film	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
24	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **sit** | present | makers *= maker* |  |  | hides |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hide=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | hides *not said here* |  |  |  | of branches | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **leave** | present | makers *= maker* *not said here* | camera traps |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme |
| 4 | **film** | present | camera traps |  |  |  |  | by makers *= maker* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by themselves=Destination |
| 5 | **fly** | present | makers *= maker* *not said here* | quiet drones |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drone=Theme |
| 6 | **build** | present | makers *= maker* *not said here* | robot animals |  |  |  | with cameras; inside *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent animal=Theme with camera=Source |

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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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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