--- title: Sloths move only a few metres a minute and save energy with a slow b… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Sloths move only a few metres a minute and save energy with a slow body and a low body temperature, because the leaves they eat give little energy and take weeks to digest. Who acts: Sloths, leaves. 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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 (Sloths, leaves), 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:4 # text = Sloths move only a few metres a minute and save energy with a slow body and a low body temperature, because the leaves they eat give little energy and take weeks to digest. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Sloths | a few metres | | | minute | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **save** | present | Sloths *not said here* | energy | | | | with a slow body and a low body temperature | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | leaves *= leaf* | the leaves *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | the leaves | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **take** | present | the leaves *not said here* | | | | week | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **digest** | to-infinitive | the leaves *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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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