--- title: A sloth climbs down about once a week to go to the toilet on the gro… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics description: A sloth climbs down about once a week to go to the toilet on the ground; scientists are not sure why, and it is the most dangerous time of its week. Who acts: sloth, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sloth, scientists), 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:9 # text = A sloth climbs down about once a week to go to the toilet on the ground; scientists are not sure why, and it is the most dangerous time of its week. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb down** | present | a sloth | | | | | down, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | a sloth *not said here* | | | the ground | | to the toilet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | sloth | the dangerous time | | | week | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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