--- title: Algae grow in grooves in sloth fur, giving it a greenish tint that m… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Algae grow in grooves in sloth fur, giving it a greenish tint that may help it hide from harpy eagles, and sloth moths and beetles live in the fur. Who acts: Algae, greenish tint, sloth, sloth moths. 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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 (Algae, greenish tint, sloth, sloth moths), 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:5 # text = Algae grow in grooves in sloth fur, giving it a greenish tint that may help it hide from harpy eagles, and sloth moths and beetles live in the fur. # 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): no change 1 Algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tint tint NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 harpy harpy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Algae | | | grooves in sloth fur | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in groove=Location | | 2 | **give** | gerund | Algae *not said here* | a greenish tint | sloth | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient tint=Theme | | 3 | **help** | may | a greenish tint | sloth | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | infinitive | sloth *not said here* | | | | | from harpy eagles | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eagle=Beneficiary | | 5 | **live** | present | sloth moths and beetles | | | the fur | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=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. 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