--- title: Capybaras can sprint at about 35 km/h; in some Argentine towns they… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Capybaras can sprint at about 35 km/h; in some Argentine towns they now graze on lawns and golf courses, where there is grass, water and no predators, so their numbers grow fast and they can eat gardens bare. Who acts: Capybaras, towns, grass, numbers. 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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, towns, grass, numbers), 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:18 # text = Capybaras can sprint at about 35 km/h; in some Argentine towns they now graze on lawns and golf courses, where there is grass, water and no predators, so their numbers grow fast and they can eat gardens bare. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Capybaras capybara PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sprint sprint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 km/h km/h NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 Argentine Argentine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 12 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 now now ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 graze graze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 lawns lawn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 golf golf NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 courses course NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 25 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 41 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 . . 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 | **sprint** | can | Capybaras | | | 35 km/h | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km/h=Trajectory | | 2 | **graze** | present | towns *= town* | | | some Argentine towns | now | on lawns and golf courses | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on lawn=Patient | | 3 | **does** | present | grass and water and no predators | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | towns's numbers | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | can | numbers *= number* | gardens | | | | bare *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | 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:18`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/17/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)