--- title: Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws,… — The South American area: sloths, anteaters, pira… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar. Who acts: Giant anteaters, long front claws. A sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» of the biology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The South American area: sloths, antea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/) / 8 # The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 8 Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar. **Who acts:** Giant anteaters, long front claws · **What happens:** walk, protect, rip, fight off · **To what, where:** knuckles, long front claws, open hard termite mounds, jaguar 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 (Giant anteaters, long front claws), 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:8 # text = Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar. # 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 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 anteaters anteater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 knuckles knuckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 rip rip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 jaguar jaguar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | Giant anteaters | | | centimetres's knuckles | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knuckle=Trajectory | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Giant anteaters *not said here* | long front claws | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Beneficiary | | 3 | **rip** | present | long front claws | open hard termite mounds | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mound=Patient | | 4 | **fight off** | can | long front claws *not said here* | a jaguar | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaguar=Co-Agent | 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:8`. **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. 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