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title: Shrews are tiny fierce hunters of insects and worms; their small bod… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Shrews are tiny fierce hunters of insects and worms; their small bodies lose heat quickly, so some eat their own weight in food every day, and a shrew can die if it goes a day without food. Who acts: Shrews, small bodies, some, shrew. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predator
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 10

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Shrews are tiny fierce hunters of insects and worms; their small bodies lose heat quickly, so some eat their own weight in food every day, and a shrew can die if it goes a day without food.

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**Who acts:** Shrews, small bodies, some, shrew · **What happens:** be, lose, eat, die, go · **To what, where:** tiny fierce hunters, heat, own weight, food

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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 (Shrews, small bodies, some, shrew), 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:10
# text = Shrews are tiny fierce hunters of insects and worms; their small bodies lose heat quickly, so some eat their own weight in food every day, and a shrew can die if it goes a day without food.
# 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): no change
1	Shrews	shrew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shrew	shrew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	without	without	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Shrews | tiny fierce hunters |  |  |  | of insects and worms | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present | worms's small bodies | heat |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | present | some | bodies's own weight |  | food | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | can | a shrew |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | shrew |  |  |  | day | without food | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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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