The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 2
A sloth is a slow little garden: green algae grow in its fur, moths live there too, and once a week it climbs all the way down to poo, the riskiest trip of its life.
Who acts: sloth, green algae, moths · What happens: be, grow, live, climb, trip · To what, where: slow little garden, fur, life
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 (sloth, green algae, moths), 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 | 7 garden | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 garden | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 grow | punct |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 algae | amod |
| 10 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 garden | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fur | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fur | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grow | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 16 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grow | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 live | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 live | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 climbs | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 climbs | cc |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 climbs | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 week | det |
| 24 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 climbs | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 climbs | nsubj |
| 26 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grow | conj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 way | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 down | obl |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 climbs | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 poo | case |
| 32 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 down | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 trip | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 trip | det |
| 35 | riskiest | risky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 trip | amod |
| 36 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garden | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trip | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 garden | 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 | a sloth | a slow little garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | green algae | sloth's fur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | present | moths | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | climb | present | sloth | week | down, once property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | trip | sloth's life | nom trip «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:2.
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 ×4, R6-punct-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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