--- title: A sloth is a slow little garden: green algae grow in its fur, moths… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: A sloth is a slow little garden: green algae grow in its fur, moths live there too, and once a week it climbs all the way down to poo, the riskiest trip of its life. Who acts: sloth, green algae, moths. 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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, 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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:2 # text = A sloth is a slow little garden: green algae grow in its fur, moths live there too, and once a week it climbs all the way down to poo, the riskiest trip of its life. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 30 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 riskiest risky ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | a sloth | a slow little garden | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | green algae | | | sloth's fur | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location | | 3 | **live** | present | moths | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **climb** | present | sloth | | | | week | down, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **trip** | | | sloth's life | | | | | nom trip «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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