The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 10
Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur.
Who acts: toed sloths, algae · What happens: come down, poo, live · To what, where: fur
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (toed sloths, algae), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 toed | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 toed | punct |
| 3 | toed | toe | ADJ | _ | 4 sloths | amod |
| 4 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 come | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 once | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 poo | mark |
| 15 | poo | poo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 18 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 live | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 algae | cc |
| 20 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 algae | conj |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fur | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fur | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 live | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Three | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | infinitive | toed sloths | down, once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | poo | to-infinitive | toed sloths not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | algae and moths | algae's fur | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location |
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:156-the-amazon-canopy.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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