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title: Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo,… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur. Who acts: toed sloths, algae. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 10

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Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur.

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**Who acts:** toed sloths, algae · **What happens:** come down, poo, live · **To what, where:** fur

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (toed sloths, algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:10
# text = Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	root	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	toed	toe	ADJ	JJ	_	4	amod	_	_
4	sloths	sloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	poo	poo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
18	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
20	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **come down** | infinitive | toed sloths |  |  |  |  | down, once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **poo** | to-infinitive | toed sloths *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | algae and moths |  |  | algae's 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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