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title: In Zootopia, Flash the sloth stamps papers so slowly that a whole qu… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: In Zootopia, Flash the sloth stamps papers so slowly that a whole queue waits, and Mr Big, a tiny shrew, rules a gang of polar bears. Who acts: Flash, whole queue, Mr. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 0

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In Zootopia, Flash the sloth stamps papers so slowly that a whole queue waits, and Mr Big, a tiny shrew, rules a gang of polar bears.

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**Who acts:** Flash, whole queue, Mr · **What happens:** stamp, wait, rule · **To what, where:** papers, Zootopia, gang

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (Flash, whole queue, Mr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:0
# text = In Zootopia, Flash the sloth stamps papers so slowly that a whole queue waits, and Mr Big, a tiny shrew, rules a gang of polar bears.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Zootopia	Zootopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Flash	Flash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	stamps	stamp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shrew	shrew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	rules	rule	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | present | Flash | papers |  | Zootopia |  | slowly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in zootopia=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | present | a whole queue |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rule** | present | Mr | a gang of polar bears |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gang=Theme |

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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:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

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

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