Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 10

Shrews are tiny fierce hunters of insects and worms; their small bodies lose heat quickly, so some eat their own weight in food every day, and a shrew can die if it goes a day without food.

Who acts: Shrews, small bodies, some, shrew · What happens: be, lose, eat, die, go · To what, where: tiny fierce hunters, heat, own weight, food

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 (Shrews, small bodies, some, shrew), 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	Shrews	shrew	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunters	amod
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunters	amod
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 insects	case
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 worms	cc
9	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 hunters	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bodies	nmod:poss
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bodies	amod
13	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lose	nsubj
14	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	parataxis
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lose	obj
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	14 lose	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 eat	advmod
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lose	parataxis
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 weight	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weight	amod
23	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 food	case
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obl
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 die	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 die	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shrew	det
31	shrew	shrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 die	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 die	aux
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 eat	conj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 goes	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 goes	nsubj
36	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 die	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 day	det
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 goes	obl:unmarked
39	without	without	ADP	_	40 food	case
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 goes	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Shrews	tiny fierce hunters			of insects and worms	tree rules
2	lose	present	worms's small bodies	heat			quickly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality
3	eat	present	some	bodies's own weight	food	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
4	die	can	a shrew					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	go a condition, not said to happen	present	shrew			day	without food	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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, 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:10.

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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