--- title: In zoos capybaras let many animals sit on them, but zoo animals are… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: In zoos capybaras let many animals sit on them, but zoo animals are well fed; some viral videos are staged, and in the wild a capybara can bite hard with its big front teeth. Who acts: capybaras, many animals, capybara. A sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/11/) [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/) / [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/) / 11 # The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 11 In zoos capybaras let many animals sit on them, but zoo animals are well fed; some viral videos are staged, and in the wild a capybara can bite hard with its big front teeth. **Who acts:** capybaras, many animals, capybara · **What happens:** let, sit, feed, stage, bite · **To what, where:** zoos, zoo animals, viral videos, wild This is a sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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 (capybaras, many animals, 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:11 # text = In zoos capybaras let many animals sit on them, but zoo animals are well fed; some viral videos are staged, and in the wild a capybara can bite hard with its big front teeth. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 3 capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 19 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 staged stage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 32 hard hard ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | capybaras | | | zoos | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | infinitive | many animals | | | | | on zoos *= zoo* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location | | 3 | **feed** | present · passive | | zoo animals | | | | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **stage** | present · passive | | some viral videos | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **bite** | can | a capybara | | | the wild | | with capybara's big front teeth; hard *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument | 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:11`. **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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/10/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)