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title: Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too. Who acts: Green algae, moths. 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 the pragmatics of ever
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 8

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Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.

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**Who acts:** Green algae, moths · **What happens:** grow, give, live · **To what, where:** sloth fur, camouflage, fur

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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 (Green algae, moths), 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:8
# text = Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.
# 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	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow** | present | Green algae |  |  | sloth fur |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location |
| 2 | **give** | present | Green algae *not said here* | camouflage |  |  |  | among leaves | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camouflage=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | moths |  |  | the fur |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location |

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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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