Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 6
Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.
Who acts: Long curved claws, sloth · What happens: curve, hook, hang down, tire · To what, where: branches, upside
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 (Long curved claws, 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 claws | amod |
| 2 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 claws | amod |
| 3 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hook | nsubj |
| 4 | hook | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 branches | case |
| 6 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hook | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hang | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sloth | det |
| 10 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hang | aux |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hook | conj |
| 13 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 hang | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hang | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asleep | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 asleep | advmod |
| 19 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hang | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tiring | punct |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 tiring | mark |
| 22 | tiring | tire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 asleep | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | hook | present | Long curved claws | branches | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over branch=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hang down | can | a sloth | upside | hour | down property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient | ||
| 4 | tire | gerund | a sloth not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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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