--- title: Up in the canopy every animal has its own trick: the sloth hangs sti… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: Up in the canopy every animal has its own trick: the sloth hangs still, the gibbon swings, the toucan reaches with its beak and the harpy eagle waits on the tallest tree above them all. Who acts: animal, sloth, gibbon, toucan. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The rainforest from the top: emergent…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/) / 3 # The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 3 Up in the canopy every animal has its own trick: the sloth hangs still, the gibbon swings, the toucan reaches with its beak and the harpy eagle waits on the tallest tree above them all. **Who acts:** animal, sloth, gibbon, toucan, harpy eagle, canopy · **What happens:** have, hang, swing, reach, wait, trick · **To what, where:** own trick, tallest tree This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (animal, sloth, gibbon, toucan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:3 # text = Up in the canopy every animal has its own trick: the sloth hangs still, the gibbon swings, the toucan reaches with its beak and the harpy eagle waits on the tallest tree above them all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 14 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 gibbon gibbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound 19 swings swing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 harpy harpy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 above above ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod:unmarked _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every animal | canopy's own trick | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | | 2 | **hang** | present | the sloth | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swing** | present | the gibbon | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **reach** | present | the toucan | | | | | with canopy's beak | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wait** | present | the harpy eagle | | | the tallest tree above animals | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | | 6 | **trick** | | canopy | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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