--- title: The sloth is one of the slowest mammals, because its leafy food give… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The sloth is one of the slowest mammals, because its leafy food gives little energy, and being slow helps it hide from hawks, which spot movement. Who acts: sloth, leafy food, food, hawks. 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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, leafy food, food, hawks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:14 # text = The sloth is one of the slowest mammals, because its leafy food gives little energy, and being slow helps it hide from hawks, which spot movement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 slowest slow ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 leafy leafy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 csubj _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 spot spot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the sloth | one | | | | of the slowest mammals | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | sloth's leafy food | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | present | sloth's leafy food *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | infinitive | food | | | | | from hawks | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from hawk=Beneficiary | | 6 | **spot** | present | hawks | movement | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme movement=Destination | 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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:14`. **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. **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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