--- title: Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit high on the head, like a hippo's,… — The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of croc… · tree and pragmatics description: Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit high on the head, like a hippo's, so a capybara can hide almost fully under water and still see, hear and breathe; it swims well with webbed toes. Who acts: eyes, 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 (eyes, 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:9 # text = Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit high on the head, like a hippo's, so a capybara can hide almost fully under water and still see, hear and breathe; it swims well with webbed toes. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hippo hippo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 capybara capybara NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 23 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 fully fully ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 37 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 40 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | groups's eyes and ears and nostrils | | | the head | | like a hippo; high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | | 2 | **hide** | can | a capybara | | | water | | fully *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | a capybara *not said here* | | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hear** | infinitive | a capybara *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **breathe** | infinitive | a capybara *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **swim** | present | capybara | | | | | with webbed toes; well *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with toe=Theme | | 7 | **web** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/8/) - next →: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/)