More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 6

A sloth climbs down about once a week to poo, and it swims about three times faster than it moves on land, holding its breath for up to about 40 minutes; calling it lazy is a myth.

Who acts: sloth, calling · What happens: climb down, poo, swim, move, hold, call · To what, where: land, breath, sloth, myth · 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 (sloth, calling), 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	3 climbs	nsubj
3	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 climbs	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 climbs	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 poo	mark
10	poo	poo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climbs	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swims	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swims	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swims	nsubj
14	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 climbs	conj
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 three	advmod
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 times	nummod
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faster	obl:unmarked
18	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 swims	advmod
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 moves	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moves	nsubj
21	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 faster	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 land	case
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moves	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 holding	punct
25	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 swims	advcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breath	nmod:poss
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	33 minutes	case
29	up	up	ADV	_	32 40	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 minutes	case
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 40	advmod
32	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 minutes	nummod
33	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 holding	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 calling	punct
35	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 myth	csubj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 calling	obj
37	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 calling	xcomp
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 myth	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 myth	det
40	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbs	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb down	present	a sloth				down, once property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	poo	to-infinitive	a sloth not said here					tree rules
3	swim	present	sloth					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	present	sloth		land			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory
5	hold	gerund	sloth not said here	sloth's breath		minute		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
6	call	gerund		sloth			lazy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	is a	present	calling	a myth				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:6.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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