--- title: A tapir slips into a stream to escape, a jaguar cracks a turtle shel… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics description: A tapir slips into a stream to escape, a jaguar cracks a turtle shell with one bite, and a Goliath birdeater spider as wide as a dinner plate eats a big insect on a leaf. Who acts: tapir, jaguar, birdeater spider. 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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 (tapir, jaguar, birdeater spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:2 # text = A tapir slips into a stream to escape, a jaguar cracks a turtle shell with one bite, and a Goliath birdeater spider as wide as a dinner plate eats a big insect on a leaf. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tapir tapir NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 jaguar jaguar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Goliath Goliath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 birdeater birdeater NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 wide wide ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . 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 | **slip** | present | a tapir | | | a stream | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | a tapir *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **crack** | present | a jaguar | a turtle shell | | | | with one bite | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with bite=Instrument | | 4 | **eat** | present | a birdeater spider | a big insect | | a leaf | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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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