--- title: Giant anteaters have no teeth; a sticky tongue about 60 centimetres… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant anteaters have no teeth; a sticky tongue about 60 centimetres long flicks up to about 150 times a minute, they feed quickly at each nest to avoid too many bites, and the stomach grinds the food. Who acts: Giant anteaters, sticky tongue, centimetres, stomach. 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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 (Giant anteaters, sticky tongue, centimetres, stomach), 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:7 # text = Giant anteaters have no teeth; a sticky tongue about 60 centimetres long flicks up to about 150 times a minute, they feed quickly at each nest to avoid too many bites, and the stomach grinds the food. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 anteaters anteater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 14 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 grinds grind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Giant anteaters | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **flick up** | present | a sticky tongue | | | | time | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feed** | present | centimetres *= centimetre* | | | each nest | | quickly *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | centimetres *= centimetre* *not said here* | many bites | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bite=Location | | 5 | **grind** | present | the stomach | the food | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.lesson:7`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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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