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title: The famous photos are almost always of caimans, not true crocodiles,… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The famous photos are almost always of caimans, not true crocodiles, because capybaras live only in Central and South America, in wetlands such as the Pantanal. Who acts: famous photos, capybaras. A sentence of the lesson «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» of the biology cours
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# The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?, sentence 6

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The famous photos are almost always of caimans, not true crocodiles, because capybaras live only in Central and South America, in wetlands such as the Pantanal.

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**Who acts:** famous photos, capybaras · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** Central

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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 (famous photos, capybaras), 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:6
# text = The famous photos are almost always of caimans, not true crocodiles, because capybaras live only in Central and South America, in wetlands such as the Pantanal.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	caimans	caiman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Pantanal	Pantanal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | the famous photos |  |  |  |  | of caimans and true crocodiles; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | capybaras |  |  | Central and South and wetlands such the Pantanal |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in central=Location |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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