--- title: To get every bit of goodness, capybaras eat some of their own soft d… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: To get every bit of goodness, capybaras eat some of their own soft droppings in the morning, so the food passes through the gut twice, as rabbits do. Who acts: capybaras, food, rabbits. 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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 (capybaras, food, rabbits), 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:13 # text = To get every bit of goodness, capybaras eat some of their own soft droppings in the morning, so the food passes through the gut twice, as rabbits do. # 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 ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **get** | to-infinitive | capybaras *not said here* | every bit of goodness | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | | 2 | **eat** | present | capybaras | some | | | morning | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 3 | **pass** | present | the food | | | the gut | | twice *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gut=Location | | 4 | **do** | present | rabbits | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:13`. **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 ×2. **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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/12/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)