--- title: Tiny algae grow in sloth fur and turn it green, which helps hide the… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny algae grow in sloth fur and turn it green, which helps hide the sloth, moths live in the fur too, and a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes by slowing its heart. Who acts: Tiny algae, moths, 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 (Tiny algae, moths, 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:5 # text = Tiny algae grow in sloth fur and turn it green, which helps hide the sloth, moths live in the fur too, and a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes by slowing its heart. # 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 ×2 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 up up ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 38 by by SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **grow** | present | Tiny algae | | | sloth fur | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | Tiny algae *not said here* | sloth | | | | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | infinitive | | the sloth | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sloth=Patient | | 5 | **live** | present | moths | | | the fur | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location | | 6 | **hold** | can | a sloth | sloth's breath | | | minute | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 7 | **slow** | gerund | a sloth *not said here* | sloth's heart | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | 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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