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title: Real sloths are slow for a good reason: their leafy food gives very… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Real sloths are slow for a good reason: their leafy food gives very little energy, so they save every bit by moving slowly, keeping a low body temperature and hanging from hooked claws instead of holding themselves up. Who acts: Real sloths, leafy food, bears. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: rea
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 1

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Real sloths are slow for a good reason: their leafy food gives very little energy, so they save every bit by moving slowly, keeping a low body temperature and hanging from hooked claws instead of holding themselves up.

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**Who acts:** Real sloths, leafy food, bears · **What happens:** be, give, save, move, keep, hang · **To what, where:** little energy, bit, low body temperature, hooked claws, bears

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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 (Real sloths, leafy food, bears), 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:1
# text = Real sloths are slow for a good reason: their leafy food gives very little energy, so they save every bit by moving slowly, keeping a low body temperature and hanging from hooked claws instead of holding themselves up.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sloths	sloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Real sloths |  |  |  |  | for a good reason; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | bears's leafy food | little energy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | bears *= bear* | every bit |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | bears *= bear* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | gerund | bears *= bear* *not said here* | a low body temperature |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund | bears *= bear* *not said here* |  |  | hooked claws |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hold up** | gerund | bears *= bear* *not said here* | bears *= bear* |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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:1`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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