--- title: Birds such as cattle tyrants and yellow-headed caracaras ride on cap… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds such as cattle tyrants and yellow-headed caracaras ride on capybaras and eat ticks and flies; both gain, which scientists call mutualism, and the capybara may even lie still or roll over for them. Who acts: Birds, both, scientists, 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 (Birds, both, scientists, 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:10 # text = Birds such as cattle tyrants and yellow-headed caracaras ride on capybaras and eat ticks and flies; both gain, which scientists call mutualism, and the capybara may even lie still or roll over for them. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 cattle cattle NOUN NN _ 5 compound _ _ 5 tyrants tyrant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 caracaras caracara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 11 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:det 21 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 24 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 26 mutualism mutualism NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 over over ADV RB _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **head** | participle | | | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ride** | present | Birds such cattle tyrants and headed caracaras | | | capybaras | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | present | Birds such cattle tyrants and headed caracaras *not said here* | ticks and flies | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | | 4 | **gain** | present | both | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **call** | present | scientists | mutualism | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme mutualism=Result | | 6 | **lie** | may | the capybara | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **roll over** | infinitive | the capybara *not said here* | | | | | for scientists *= scientist* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:042-the-capybara.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/9/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)