Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 5

Sloths eat leaves that give little energy, so they move slowly, have small muscles and a low body temperature, and can take a whole day to digest a meal.

Who acts: Sloths, leaves · What happens: eat, give, move, have, take, digest · To what, where: leaves, little energy, small muscles, meal

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 (Sloths, 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	Sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leaves	acl:relcl
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 energy	amod
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 move	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	nsubj
11	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	parataxis
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 move	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 move	conj
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 muscles	amod
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 temperature	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 temperature	det
19	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 temperature	amod
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 temperature	compound
21	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 muscles	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 move	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 digest	mark
30	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 meal	det
32	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 digest	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Sloths	leaves			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	give	present	leaves	little energy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	move	present	leaves = leaf			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	leaves = leaf not said here	small muscles and a low body temperature			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient
5	take	can	leaves = leaf not said here		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	digest	to-infinitive	leaves = leaf not said here	a meal			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, 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:5.

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): 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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