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title: A two-toed sloth has two claws on each front foot and three on each… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics
description: A two-toed sloth has two claws on each front foot and three on each back foot. Who acts: toed sloth. A sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 6

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A two-toed sloth has two claws on each front foot and three on each back foot.

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**Who acts:** toed sloth · **What happens:** toe, have · **To what, where:** two claws, front foot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 (toed 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:6
# text = A two-toed sloth has two claws on each front foot and three on each back foot.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	toed	toe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | a toed sloth | two claws |  | each front foot |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |

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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.

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**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: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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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