--- title: Some ground sloths were enormous: Megatherium was as big as an eleph… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: Some ground sloths were enormous: Megatherium was as big as an elephant, stood on its back legs to reach leaves and walked on the sides of its clawed feet. Who acts: ground sloths, Megatherium. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/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/) / [Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/) / 8 # Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 8 Some ground sloths were enormous: Megatherium was as big as an elephant, stood on its back legs to reach leaves and walked on the sides of its clawed feet. **Who acts:** ground sloths, Megatherium · **What happens:** be, stand, reach, walk, claw · **To what, where:** back legs, leaves, sides This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (ground sloths, Megatherium), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:8 # text = Some ground sloths were enormous: Megatherium was as big as an elephant, stood on its back legs to reach leaves and walked on the sides of its clawed feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Megatherium Megatherium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 clawed claw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | some ground sloths | | | | | enormous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Megatherium | | | | | as a elephant; big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | past | Megatherium *not said here* | | | elephant's back legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Megatherium *not said here* | leaves | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 5 | **walk** | past | some ground sloths *not said here* | | | the sides of elephant's clawed feet | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | | 6 | **claw** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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. 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