The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 11
Wallabies are smaller relatives of kangaroos; rock wallabies climb cliffs, and some wallabies brought to Britain and New Zealand now live wild there.
Who acts: Wallabies, rock wallabies · What happens: be, climb, bring, live · To what, where: smaller relatives, cliffs, Britain
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 (Wallabies, rock wallabies), 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 | Wallabies | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relatives | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 relatives | cop |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 relatives | amod |
| 4 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kangaroos | case |
| 6 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relatives | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 climb | punct |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wallabies | compound |
| 9 | wallabies | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 climb | nsubj |
| 10 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 relatives | parataxis |
| 11 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 climb | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 wallabies | det |
| 15 | wallabies | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 live | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wallabies | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Britain | case |
| 18 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Zealand | cc |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Zealand | flat |
| 21 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Britain | conj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 climb | conj |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 live | xcomp |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 live | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relatives | punct |
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 | is a | present | Wallabies | smaller relatives | of kangaroos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | climb | present | rock wallabies | cliffs | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | some wallabies not said here | Britain and New Zealand | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to britain=Destination | ||||
| 4 | live | present | some wallabies | there | now | wild property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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