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title: A reptile does not burn food to keep warm, so a well-fed caiman may… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A reptile does not burn food to keep warm, so a well-fed caiman may go days or even weeks without a big meal. Who acts: reptile, fed 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 
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# The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 17

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A reptile does not burn food to keep warm, so a well-fed caiman may go days or even weeks without a big meal.

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**Who acts:** reptile, fed caiman · **What happens:** not burn, keep, feed, go · **To what, where:** food

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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 (reptile, fed 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:17
# text = A reptile does not burn food to keep warm, so a well-fed caiman may go days or even weeks without a big meal.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	caiman	caiman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | a reptile | food |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a reptile *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | may | a fed caiman |  |  |  | day | without a big meal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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, 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/).

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