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title: At Izu Shaboten Zoo in Japan, keepers have given capybaras warm bath… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics
description: At Izu Shaboten Zoo in Japan, keepers have given capybaras warm baths in winter since the 1980s, and yuzu fruits are often floated in the water; capybaras come from warm places and love water. Who acts: keepers, capybaras. A sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodi
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# The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 14

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At Izu Shaboten Zoo in Japan, keepers have given capybaras warm baths in winter since the 1980s, and yuzu fruits are often floated in the water; capybaras come from warm places and love water.

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**Who acts:** keepers, capybaras · **What happens:** give, float, come, love · **To what, where:** warm baths, capybaras, Izu Zoo, yuzu fruits, water, warm places

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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 (keepers, capybaras), 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:14
# text = At Izu Shaboten Zoo in Japan, keepers have given capybaras warm baths in winter since the 1980s, and yuzu fruits are often floated in the water; capybaras come from warm places and love water.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Izu	Izu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Shaboten	Shaboten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	yuzu	yuzu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:_
22	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | keepers | warm baths | capybaras | Izu Zoo in Japan | since the 1980s; winter |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent capybara=Recipient bath=Theme at zoo=Asset |
| 2 | **float** | present · passive |  | yuzu fruits |  | the water |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | present | capybaras |  |  | warm places |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **love** | present | capybaras *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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 ×1, 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.

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