--- title: Caimans, cousins of alligators, sometimes do catch capybaras, mostly… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Caimans, cousins of alligators, sometimes do catch capybaras, mostly young ones, so the truth is calm, not friendship: a big capybara is a hard catch, a sunbathing caiman is not very hungry, and the capybara is ready to run. Who acts: truth, big capybara, sunbathing caiman, capybara. 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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 (truth, big capybara, sunbathing caiman, capybara), 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:3 # text = Caimans, cousins of alligators, sometimes do catch capybaras, mostly young ones, so the truth is calm, not friendship: a big capybara is a hard catch, a sunbathing caiman is not very hungry, and the capybara is ready to run. # 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 1 Caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 sunbathing sunbathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 parataxis _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | present · do-support | | capybaras | | | | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the truth | | | | | calm *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a big capybara | a hard catch | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | a sunbathing caiman | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the capybara | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **run** | to-infinitive | the capybara *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/1/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)