--- title: A sloth climbs down about once a week to poo, and it swims about thr… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: A sloth climbs down about once a week to poo, and it swims about three times faster than it moves on land, holding its breath for up to about 40 minutes; calling it lazy is a myth. Who acts: sloth, calling. 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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 (sloth, calling), 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:6 # text = A sloth climbs down about once a week to poo, and it swims about three times faster than it moves on land, holding its breath for up to about 40 minutes; calling it lazy is a myth. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 poo poo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 up up ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 csubj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb down** | present | a sloth | | | | | down, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **poo** | to-infinitive | a sloth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | present | sloth | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | sloth | | | land | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | | 5 | **hold** | gerund | sloth *not said here* | sloth's breath | | | minute | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 6 | **call** | gerund | | sloth | | | | lazy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** | present | calling | a myth | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:6`. **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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/5/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)