The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 3

Cartoons show sloths as lazy jokers and toucans as cereal-box clowns; the real reasons are better: leaves give a sloth very little energy, and a toucan's huge beak is light, spongy inside and works like a radiator.

Who acts: Cartoons, real reasons, leaves, huge beak · What happens: show, be, give, work · To what, where: sloths, little energy, sloth

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 (Cartoons, real reasons, leaves, huge beak), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 jokers	case
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jokers	amod
6	jokers	joker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sloths	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 toucans	cc
8	toucans	toucan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jokers	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 clowns	case
10	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 box	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cereal	punct
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clowns	compound
13	clowns	clown	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jokers	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reasons	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reasons	amod
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 better	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 show	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sloth	det
24	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	iobj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 little	advmod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 energy	amod
27	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 light	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 light	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 toucan	det
31	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beak	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 toucan	case
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beak	amod
34	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 light	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 light	cop
36	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 give	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spongy	punct
38	spongy	spongy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 light	conj
39	inside	inside	ADV	_	38 spongy	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 works	cc
41	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 light	conj
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 radiator	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 radiator	det
44	radiator	radiator	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 works	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons		sloths	as lazy jokers as box clowns and toucans	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sloth=Recipient
2	is	present	the real reasons			good property	tree rules
3	give	present	leaves	little energy	a sloth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sloth=Recipient energy=Theme
4	is	present	a toucan's huge beak			light property	tree rules
5	be		a toucan's huge beak not said here			inside property	tree rules
6	work	present	a toucan's huge beak not said here			like a radiator	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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