More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 4

Sloths move only a few metres a minute and save energy with a slow body and a low body temperature, because the leaves they eat give little energy and take weeks to digest.

Who acts: Sloths, leaves · What happens: move, save, eat, give, take, digest · To what, where: few metres, energy, leaves, little energy

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 (Sloths, leaves), 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	Sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 few	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 metres	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 metres	amod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 save	cc
10	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 move	conj
11	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 body	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 body	det
14	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 body	amod
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 temperature	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 temperature	det
18	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 temperature	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 temperature	compound
20	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 body	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaves	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leaves	det
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 give	nsubj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eat	nsubj
26	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 leaves	acl:relcl
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 save	advcl
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 energy	amod
29	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 give	conj
32	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 digest	mark
34	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 take	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Sloths	a few metres	minute		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	save	present	Sloths not said here	energy		with a slow body and a low body temperature	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	eat	present	leaves = leaf	the leaves not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	give	present	the leaves	little energy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
5	take	present	the leaves not said here		week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	digest	to-infinitive	the leaves not said here				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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:4.

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): R8-pos-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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