--- title: Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escap… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn. Who acts: Caimans, caiman. A sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/16/) [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/) / 16 # The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 16 Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn. **Who acts:** Caimans, caiman · **What happens:** bask, let, escape, cool down, not be · **To what, where:** threat 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 (Caimans, caiman), 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:16 # text = Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 bask bask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 with with SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 yawn yawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **bask** | present | Caimans and crocodiles | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | Caimans and crocodiles *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **escape** | infinitive | Caimans and crocodiles *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cool down** | infinitive | Caimans and crocodiles *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | caiman | a threat or a yawn | | | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/14/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)