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title: Sloths eat leaves that give little energy, so they move slowly, have… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Sloths eat leaves that give little energy, so they move slowly, have small muscles and a low body temperature, and can take a whole day to digest a meal. Who acts: Sloths, leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 5

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Sloths eat leaves that give little energy, so they move slowly, have small muscles and a low body temperature, and can take a whole day to digest a meal.

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**Who acts:** Sloths, leaves · **What happens:** eat, give, move, have, take, digest · **To what, where:** leaves, little energy, small muscles, meal

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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 (Sloths, leaves), 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:5
# text = Sloths eat leaves that give little energy, so they move slowly, have small muscles and a low body temperature, and can take a whole day to digest a meal.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sloths	sloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | present | Sloths | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | leaves | little energy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | present | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* | small muscles and a low body temperature |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | can | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **digest** | to-infinitive | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* | a meal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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.

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