--- title: Its fur is even a little garden: tiny green algae grow in it and mot… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: Its fur is even a little garden: tiny green algae grow in it and moths live in it, so a still, greenish sloth is hard to spot among the leaves. Who acts: fur, tiny green algae, moths, greenish sloth. 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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 (fur, tiny green algae, moths, greenish sloth), 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:1 # text = Its fur is even a little garden: tiny green algae grow in it and moths live in it, so a still, greenish sloth is hard to spot among the leaves. # 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): no change 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | sloth's fur | a little garden | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | tiny green algae | | | | | in sloth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 3 | **live** | present | moths | | | | | in sloth | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | a greenish sloth | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **spot** | to-infinitive | a greenish sloth *not said here* | | | | | among the leaves | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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