Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 9

A sloth climbs down about once a week to go to the toilet on the ground; scientists are not sure why, and it is the most dangerous time of its week.

Who acts: sloth, scientists · What happens: climb down, go, not be, be · To what, where: ground, dangerous time

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 (sloth, scientists), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sloth	det
2	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbs	nsubj
3	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 climbs	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 climbs	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climbs	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 toilet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toilet	det
13	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sure	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sure	advmod
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 climbs	parataxis
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sure	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 time	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 time	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 time	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 dangerous	advmod
29	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sure	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 week	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 week	nmod:poss
33	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 time	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb down	present	a sloth				down, once property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	a sloth not said here		the ground		to the toilet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location
3	not is	present	scientists				sure property	tree rules
4	is a	present	sloth	the dangerous time		week		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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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