Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 7
Sloths are good swimmers and swim faster than they move on land; a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes.
Who acts: Sloths, claws, sloth · What happens: be, swim, move, hold · To what, where: good swimmers, land, breath
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, 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 | Sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swimmers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swimmers | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swimmers | amod |
| 4 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swim | cc |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swimmers | conj |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 swim | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 move | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 move | nsubj |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faster | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 move | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hold | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sloth | det |
| 15 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hold | aux |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swimmers | parataxis |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 breath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 minutes | case |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 40 | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 minutes | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 40 | advmod |
| 24 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hold | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swimmers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sloths | good swimmers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | Sloths not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | present | claws = claw | land | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hold | can | a sloth | sloth's breath | minute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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:7.
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 ×2. 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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