--- title: Imagine being so slow that green algae grow in your hair and moths l… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine being so slow that green algae grow in your hair and moths live in it, then remember that the same sloth can swim across a river about three times faster than it climbs. Who acts: you, green algae, moths, same sloth. 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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 (you, green algae, moths, same sloth), 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:2 # text = Imagine being so slow that green algae grow in your hair and moths live in it, then remember that the same sloth can swim across a river about three times faster than it climbs. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 slow slow ADJ JJ _ 1 xcomp _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 33 than than SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | present | green algae | | | your hair | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location | | 4 | **live** | present | moths | | | hair | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 5 | **remember** | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **swim** | can | the same sloth | | | a river | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory | | 7 | **climb** | present | sloth | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/1/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)