The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 0

A two-toed sloth hangs upside down from a branch and does not seem to move for an hour; it is not lazy but thrifty, because its leaves give so little energy that it saves every bit by moving slowly and keeping its body cool.

Who acts: toed sloth, sloth, leaves · What happens: hang, not seem, move, not be, be, give · To what, where: branch, little energy, bit, body

This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 (toed sloth, sloth, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sloth	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 toed	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 toed	punct
4	toed	toe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sloth	amod
5	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hangs	nsubj
6	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upside	upside	ADV	_	6 hangs	advmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 upside	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 branch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 branch	det
11	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hangs	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seem	cc
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seem	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seem	advmod
15	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hangs	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 move	mark
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seem	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 hour	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 move	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lazy	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lazy	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lazy	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 lazy	advmod
25	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hangs	parataxis
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 thrifty	cc
27	thrifty	thrifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lazy	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 give	mark
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 leaves	nmod:poss
31	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 give	nsubj
32	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lazy	advcl
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 little	advmod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 energy	amod
35	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 saves	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saves	nsubj
38	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 give	advcl
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 bit	det
40	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saves	obj
41	by	by	SCONJ	_	42 moving	mark
42	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 saves	advcl
43	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	42 moving	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 keeping	cc
45	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 moving	conj
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 body	nmod:poss
47	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 keeping	obj
48	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 keeping	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hangs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a toed sloth		a branch		upside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not seem	present · do-support	a toed sloth not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	move	to-infinitive	a toed sloth not said here			hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	sloth				lazy property	tree rules
5	be		sloth not said here					tree rules
6	give	present	sloth's leaves	little energy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
7	save	present	sloth	every bit				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
8	move	gerund	sloth not said here				slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	keep	gerund	sloth not said here	sloth's body			cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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, 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:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson:0.

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 ×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.

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