More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 2

Imagine being so slow that green algae grow in your hair and moths live in it, then remember that the same sloth can swim across a river about three times faster than it climbs.

Who acts: you, green algae, moths, same sloth, sloth · What happens: imagine, be, grow, live, remember, swim · To what, where: hair, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (you, green algae, moths, same 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 slow	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	_	1 Imagine	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 grow	mark
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 algae	amod
7	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 live	cc
13	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 live	nsubj
14	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 live	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 remember	advmod
19	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Imagine	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 swim	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sloth	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sloth	amod
23	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swim	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 swim	aux
25	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remember	ccomp
26	across	across	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swim	obl
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 three	advmod
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 times	nummod
31	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 faster	obl:unmarked
32	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 swim	advmod
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 climbs	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 climbs	nsubj
35	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 faster	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	gerund	you not said here			slow property	tree rules
3	grow	present	green algae	your hair			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location
4	live	present	moths	hair			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
5	remember	infinitive			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	swim	can	the same sloth	a river		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory
7	climb	present	sloth				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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