The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 1

Its fur is even a little garden: tiny green algae grow in it and moths live in it, so a still, greenish sloth is hard to spot among the leaves.

Who acts: fur, tiny green algae, moths, greenish sloth · What happens: be, grow, live, spot · To what, where: little garden

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 (fur, tiny green algae, moths, greenish sloth), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fur	nmod:poss
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 garden	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 garden	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garden	amod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 algae	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 algae	amod
11	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 garden	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grow	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 live	cc
16	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 live	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hard	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	28 hard	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sloth	det
23	still	still	ADV	_	25 greenish	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 still	punct
25	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sloth	amod
26	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hard	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	cop
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garden	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 spot	mark
30	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hard	xcomp
31	among	among	ADP	_	33 leaves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 leaves	det
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spot	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 garden	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sloth's fur	a little garden		tree rules
2	grow	present	tiny green algae		in sloth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	live	present	moths		in sloth	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
4	is	present	a greenish sloth		hard property	tree rules
5	spot	to-infinitive	a greenish sloth not said here		among the leaves	vn weather-57 «It V PP.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:1.

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.

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