--- title: A two-toed sloth hangs upside down from a branch and does not seem t… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: A two-toed sloth hangs upside down from a branch and does not seem to move for an hour; it is not lazy but thrifty, because its leaves give so little energy that it saves every bit by moving slowly and keeping its body cool. Who acts: toed sloth, sloth, leaves. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toed sloth, sloth, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson:0 # text = A two-toed sloth hangs upside down from a branch and does not seem to move for an hour; it is not lazy but thrifty, because its leaves give so little energy that it saves every bit by moving slowly and keeping its body cool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 toed toe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 upside upside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 thrifty thrifty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 by by SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 43 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **hang** | present | a toed sloth | | | a branch | | upside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support | a toed sloth *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | a toed sloth *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | sloth | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | sloth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | present | sloth's leaves | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 7 | **save** | present | sloth | every bit | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 8 | **move** | gerund | sloth *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **keep** | gerund | sloth *not said here* | sloth's body | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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