--- title: Films show piranhas stripping a cow in seconds, Flash the sloth in Z… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: Films show piranhas stripping a cow in seconds, Flash the sloth in Zootopia takes forever to laugh at a joke, and Sid of Ice Age meets dinosaurs; the truth is shy piranhas, sloths that really are slow, and giant ground sloths that lived long after the dinosaurs were gone. 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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 (Films, piranhas, Flash, Sid), 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:3 # text = Films show piranhas stripping a cow in seconds, Flash the sloth in Zootopia takes forever to laugh at a joke, and Sid of Ice Age meets dinosaurs; the truth is shy piranhas, sloths that really are slow, and giant ground sloths that lived long after the dinosaurs were gone. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 piranhas piranhas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stripping strip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 10 Flash Flash PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Zootopia Zootopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 forever forever ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Sid Sid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 29 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 really really ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=54:punct 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ _ 50 after after SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 53 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 advcl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Films | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **strip** | gerund | piranhas | a cow | | | second | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | | 3 | **take** | present | Flash | | | | | forever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | Flash *not said here* | | | a joke | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **meet** | present | Sid of Ice Age | dinosaurs | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | the truth | shy piranhas and sloths and giant ground sloths | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | sloths | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **live** | past | giant ground sloths | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is** | past | the dinosaurs | | | | | gone *property* | 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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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