--- title: A capybara eats several kilograms of grass and water plants a day, b… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: A capybara eats several kilograms of grass and water plants a day, because grass is tough and has little goodness in it; like all rodents its front teeth keep growing all its life and are worn down by chewing. Who acts: capybara, grass, front teeth, chewing. 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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, grass, front teeth, chewing), 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:12 # text = A capybara eats several kilograms of grass and water plants a day, because grass is tough and has little goodness in it; like all rodents its front teeth keep growing all its life and are worn down by chewing. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 rodents rodent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 31 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 xcomp _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 39 down down ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 41 chewing chewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | a capybara | several kilograms grass and water and plants | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | grass | | | | | tough *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | grass *not said here* | little goodness | | capybara | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | capybara's front teeth | | | | | like all rodents | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | gerund | capybara's front teeth *not said here* | capybara's life | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme | | 6 | **wear down** | present · passive | chewing | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/11/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)