--- title: Cartoons show sloths as lazy jokers and toucans as cereal-box clowns… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show sloths as lazy jokers and toucans as cereal-box clowns; the real reasons are better: leaves give a sloth very little energy, and a toucan's huge beak is light, spongy inside and works like a radiator. Who acts: Cartoons, real reasons, leaves, huge beak. 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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 (Cartoons, real reasons, leaves, huge beak), 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:3 # text = Cartoons show sloths as lazy jokers and toucans as cereal-box clowns; the real reasons are better: leaves give a sloth very little energy, and a toucan's huge beak is light, spongy inside and works like a radiator. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jokers joker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 toucans toucan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 clowns clown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 iobj _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 spongy spongy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 inside inside ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 radiator radiator NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | sloths | | | as lazy jokers as box clowns and toucans | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sloth=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | the real reasons | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | present | leaves | little energy | a sloth | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sloth=Recipient energy=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a toucan's huge beak | | | | | light *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | a toucan's huge beak *not said here* | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **work** | present | a toucan's huge beak *not said here* | | | | | like a radiator | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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