--- title: Camera traps are boxes that take pictures or film when an animal pas… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics description: Camera traps are boxes that take pictures or film when an animal passes in front of them; they can wait for months in places people rarely go, and they have filmed rare animals like snow leopards. Who acts: Camera traps, boxes, animal, animals. A sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How nature documentaries are made: hid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting/) / 9 # How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 9 Camera traps are boxes that take pictures or film when an animal passes in front of them; they can wait for months in places people rarely go, and they have filmed rare animals like snow leopards. **Who acts:** Camera traps, boxes, animal, animals, people · **What happens:** be, take, pass, wait, go, film · **To what, where:** boxes, pictures, front, places, rare animals 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 (Camera traps, boxes, animal, animals), 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:9 # text = Camera traps are boxes that take pictures or film when an animal passes in front of them; they can wait for months in places people rarely go, and they have filmed rare animals like snow leopards. # 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 1 Camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 34 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 leopards leopard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Camera traps | boxes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | boxes | pictures or film | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | a animal | | | front of traps | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location | | 4 | **wait** | can | animals *= animal* | | | places | month | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **go** | present | people | places *not said here* | | | | rarely *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | | 6 | **film** | present · perfect | people | rare animals | | | | like snow leopards | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | 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:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:9`. **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. **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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