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title: Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside dow… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring. Who acts: Long curved claws, sloth. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 6

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Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.

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**Who acts:** Long curved claws, sloth · **What happens:** curve, hook, hang down, tire · **To what, where:** branches, upside

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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 (Long curved claws, sloth), 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:6
# text = Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.
# 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	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hook	hook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tiring	tire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **hook** | present | Long curved claws |  |  | branches |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over branch=Destination |
| 3 | **hang down** | can | a sloth | upside |  |  | hour | down *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient |
| 4 | **tire** | gerund | a sloth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:6`.

**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.

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

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