Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 1

Real sloths are slow for a good reason: their leafy food gives very little energy, so they save every bit by moving slowly, keeping a low body temperature and hanging from hooked claws instead of holding themselves up.

Who acts: Real sloths, leafy food, bears · What happens: be, give, save, move, keep, hang · To what, where: little energy, bit, low body temperature, hooked claws, bears

This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (Real sloths, leafy food, bears), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sloths	amod
2	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 reason	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reason	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 gives	punct
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
11	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	acl:relcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 little	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 energy	amod
16	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 save	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 save	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 save	nsubj
20	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gives	parataxis
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 moving	mark
24	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 save	advcl
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 moving	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keeping	punct
27	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 moving	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 temperature	det
29	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 temperature	amod
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 temperature	compound
31	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keeping	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hanging	cc
33	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 keeping	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 claws	case
35	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 claws	amod
36	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hanging	obl
37	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 holding	mark
38	of	of	ADP	_	37 instead	fixed
39	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 hanging	advcl
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 holding	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 holding	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real sloths			for a good reason; slow property	tree rules
2	give	present	bears's leafy food	little energy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	save	present	bears = bear	every bit			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
4	move	gerund	bears = bear not said here			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	gerund	bears = bear not said here	a low body temperature			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme
6	hang	gerund	bears = bear not said here		hooked claws		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hook	participle					vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
8	hold up	gerund	bears = bear not said here	bears = bear			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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