--- title: Every record-breaking body is an answer to a problem: the sloth is s… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Every record-breaking body is an answer to a problem: the sloth is slow because leaves give little energy, the giraffe is tall to reach leaves nobody else can, and the electric eel makes shocks to hunt in muddy water. Who acts: record breaking body, sloth, leaves, giraffe. 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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 (record breaking body, sloth, leaves, giraffe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:0 # text = Every record-breaking body is an answer to a problem: the sloth is slow because leaves give little energy, the giraffe is tall to reach leaves nobody else can, and the electric eel makes shocks to hunt in muddy water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 nmod _ _ 31 else else ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 39 shocks shock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | every record breaking body | a answer | | | | to a problem | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the sloth | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | leaves | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the giraffe | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the giraffe *not said here* | leaves nobody | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 7 | **make** | can | the electric eel | shocks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shock=Product | | 8 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the electric eel *not said here* | | | muddy water | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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