The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 0
In the Australian walkabout there is no fence between you and the animals: you walk along a path while kangaroos doze in the shade a few steps away, and the keepers only ask you to stay on the path and let the animals be.
Who acts: fence, you, kangaroos, keepers, animals · What happens: be, walk, doze, ask, stay, let · To what, where: Australian walkabout, path, shade, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fence, you, kangaroos, keepers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 walkabout | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 walkabout | det |
| 3 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walkabout | amod |
| 4 | walkabout | walkabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 fence | det |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fence | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 animals | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 animals | det |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 you | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 walk | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 is | parataxis |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 path | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 path | det |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walk | obl |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 doze | mark |
| 21 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 doze | nsubj |
| 22 | doze | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 walk | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 shade | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shade | det |
| 25 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 doze | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 steps | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 steps | amod |
| 28 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 away | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 doze | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ask | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 keepers | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 keepers | det |
| 33 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ask | nsubj |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 ask | advmod |
| 35 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 walk | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 ask | nsubj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 stay | mark |
| 38 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 ask | xcomp |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 path | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 path | det |
| 41 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stay | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 let | cc |
| 43 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 stay | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 animals | det |
| 45 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 let | obj |
| 46 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 let | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no fence between you | the Australian walkabout; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in walkabout=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | you | a path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | doze | present | kangaroos | the shade | away property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | the keepers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the keepers not said here | the path | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | the keepers not said here | the animals | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | infinitive | the animals not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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