--- title: The capybara is the biggest rodent in the world, a giant cousin of t… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: The capybara is the biggest rodent in the world, a giant cousin of the guinea pig as heavy as a grown man, that spends its day chewing grass by South American rivers and ponds. Who acts: capybara. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capybara), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:042-the-capybara.lesson:0 # text = The capybara is the biggest rodent in the world, a giant cousin of the guinea pig as heavy as a grown man, that spends its day chewing grass by South American rivers and ponds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 042-the-capybara.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the capybara | the biggest rodent | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spend** | present | the capybara | | | | day | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **chew** | gerund | the capybara *not said here* | grass | | | | by South American rivers and ponds | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | 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:042-the-capybara.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/15/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)