--- title: Capybaras live in groups, often of about 10 to 20; some keep watch,… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Capybaras live in groups, often of about 10 to 20; some keep watch, and at a sharp bark-like alarm call the whole group rushes into the water, where they can stay under for about 5 minutes. Who acts: Capybaras, some, whole group, groups. 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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, some, whole group, groups), 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:8 # text = Capybaras live in groups, often of about 10 to 20; some keep watch, and at a sharp bark-like alarm call the whole group rushes into the water, where they can stay under for about 5 minutes. # 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 ×2 1 Capybaras capybara NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 20 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 21 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj 38 under under ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Capybaras | | | groups of 10 20 | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **keep** | present | some | watch | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | present | the whole group | | | a sharp bark like alarm call | | into the water *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | | 4 | **stay** | can | groups *= group* | | | | minute | under *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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. 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