--- title: Sloths are good swimmers and swim faster than they move on land; a s… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics description: Sloths are good swimmers and swim faster than they move on land; a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes. Who acts: Sloths, 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 tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predato…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/) / 7 # Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 7 Sloths are good swimmers and swim faster than they move on land; a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes. **Who acts:** Sloths, claws, sloth · **What happens:** be, swim, move, hold · **To what, where:** good swimmers, land, breath 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, 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:7 # text = Sloths are good swimmers and swim faster than they move on land; a sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes. # 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 ×2 1 Sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 swimmers swimmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sloths | good swimmers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | present | Sloths *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move** | present | claws *= claw* | | | land | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | | 4 | **hold** | can | a sloth | sloth's breath | | | minute | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | 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. **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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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