--- title: Caimans, especially the big black caiman, sometimes catch and eat ca… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Caimans, especially the big black caiman, sometimes catch and eat capybaras, mostly young ones near the water; jaguars, anacondas and pumas hunt them too. Who acts: Caimans, jaguars. 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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 (Caimans, jaguars), 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:7 # text = Caimans, especially the big black caiman, sometimes catch and eat capybaras, mostly young ones near the water; jaguars, anacondas and pumas hunt them too. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 especially especially ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 10 catch catch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 jaguars jaguar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 anacondas anaconda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 pumas puma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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** | infinitive | Caimans | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present | Caimans *not said here* | capybaras | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capybara=Patient | | 3 | **hunt** | present | jaguars and anacondas and pumas | pumas *= puma* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/6/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)