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title: Wildlife film-makers sit in hides so animals carry on as if nobody i… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wildlife film-makers sit in hides so animals carry on as if nobody is there, because animals that see or smell people often stop what they are doing or run away; some crews waited in hides for weeks to film one short scene. Who acts: Wildlife film makers, animals, nobody, people. A sentence of the l
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# How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 8

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Wildlife film-makers sit in hides so animals carry on as if nobody is there, because animals that see or smell people often stop what they are doing or run away; some crews waited in hides for weeks to film one short scene.

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**Who acts:** Wildlife film makers, animals, nobody, people, crews · **What happens:** sit, carry on, be, see, smell, stop · **To what, where:** hides, people, one short scene

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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 (Wildlife film makers, animals, nobody, people), 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:8
# text = Wildlife film-makers sit in hides so animals carry on as if nobody is there, because animals that see or smell people often stop what they are doing or run away; some crews waited in hides for weeks to film one short scene.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	xcomp	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	film	film	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Wildlife film makers |  |  | hides |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hide=Location |
| 2 | **carry on** | present | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **smell** | present | animals *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 6 | **stop** | present | animals |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **do** | present · progressive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 8 | **run away** | present | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **wait** | past | some crews |  |  | hides | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hide=Location |
| 10 | **film** | to-infinitive | some crews *not said here* | one short scene |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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