--- title: An adult capybara is the largest living rodent, up to about 60 kg, w… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: An adult capybara is the largest living rodent, up to about 60 kg, which is too big for most caimans; caimans mostly eat fish, snails, crabs and small animals. Who acts: adult capybara, 60 kg, caimans. A sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/5/) [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/) / 5 # The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 5 An adult capybara is the largest living rodent, up to about 60 kg, which is too big for most caimans; caimans mostly eat fish, snails, crabs and small animals. **Who acts:** adult capybara, 60 kg, caimans · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** largest living rodent, fish 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 (adult capybara, 60 kg, caimans), 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:5 # text = An adult capybara is the largest living rodent, up to about 60 kg, which is too big for most caimans; caimans mostly eat fish, snails, crabs and small animals. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kg kg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a adult capybara | the largest living rodent | | | | 60 kg *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | 60 kg | | | | | for most caimans; big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present | caimans | fish and snails and crabs and small animals | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/3/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)