--- title: Three-toed sloths hang by long curved claws, eat leaves that give li… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: Three-toed sloths hang by long curved claws, eat leaves that give little energy, move only a few metres a minute, which saves energy and helps them hide from eagles, and climb down about once a week to go to the toilet. Who acts: Three toed sloths, leaves, minute, metres. 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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 (Three toed sloths, leaves, minute, metres), 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:8 # text = Three-toed sloths hang by long curved claws, eat leaves that give little energy, move only a few metres a minute, which saves energy and helps them hide from eagles, and climb down about once a week to go to the toilet. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 toed toed ADJ JJ _ 4 amod _ _ 4 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 12 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 19 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 38 down down ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 advmod _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | Three toed sloths | | | | | by curved claws | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by claw=Location | | 2 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | long *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **eat** | present | Three toed sloths *not said here* | leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | leaves | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **move** | present | Three toed sloths *not said here* | a few metres | | | minute | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Theme | | 6 | **save** | present | a minute | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 7 | **help** | present | a minute *not said here* | metres *= metre* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **hide** | infinitive | metres *= metre* *not said here* | | | | | from eagles | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eagle=Beneficiary | | 9 | **climb down** | present | Three toed sloths *not said here* | | | | | down, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **go** | to-infinitive | Three toed sloths *not said here* | | | the toilet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location | 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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/7/) - next →: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/)