--- title: It is famous for staying calm while birds, ducks and even monkeys si… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: It is famous for staying calm while birds, ducks and even monkeys sit on its back, and for photos of it resting right beside a basking caiman as if they were best friends. Who acts: capybara, birds, photos, monkeys. 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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, birds, photos, monkeys), 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:1 # text = It is famous for staying calm while birds, ducks and even monkeys sit on its back, and for photos of it resting right beside a basking caiman as if they were best friends. # 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 ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 8 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 resting rest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 25 right right ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 beside beside ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 basking basking NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | capybara | | | | | famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | gerund | capybara *not said here* | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | present | birds and ducks | | | capybara's back | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | | 4 | **rest** | gerund | photos of back *not said here* | | | a basking caiman | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside caiman=Location | | 5 | **is a** | past | monkeys *= monkey* | best friends | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/0/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)