The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 12
The quokka is a small wallaby from islands near Perth whose face shape looks like a smile; visitors may not touch or feed quokkas, because fed quokkas can get ill and lose their fear of people, and can be fined for it.
Who acts: quokka, face shape, visitors, fed quokkas, wallabies · What happens: be, look, not touch, feed, get, lose · To what, where: small wallaby, islands, quokkas, fear, people
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 (quokka, face shape, visitors, fed quokkas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quokka | det |
| 2 | quokka | quokka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wallaby | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wallaby | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wallaby | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wallaby | amod |
| 6 | wallaby | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wallaby | nmod |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 Perth | case |
| 10 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 islands | nmod |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 shape | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shape | compound |
| 13 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Perth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 smile | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 touch | punct |
| 19 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 touch | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 touch | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 touch | advmod |
| 22 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wallaby | parataxis |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 feed | cc |
| 24 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 touch | conj |
| 25 | quokkas | quokka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 get | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 28 | fed | fed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 quokkas | amod |
| 29 | quokkas | quokka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 get | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 get | aux |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 touch | advcl |
| 32 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 get | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lose | cc |
| 34 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 get | conj |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fear | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lose | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 people | case |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fear | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fined | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 fined | cc |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 fined | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 fined | aux:pass |
| 43 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 get | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fined | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wallaby | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the quokka | a small wallaby | islands near Perth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present | face shape | like a smile | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not touch | may | visitors | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feed | infinitive | visitors not said here | quokkas | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quokka=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | get | can | fed quokkas | ill property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | lose | infinitive | fed quokkas not said here | wallabies's fear of people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | fine | can · passive | fed quokkas not said here | for quokka | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | ||||
| 8 | fear | wallabies = wallaby | people | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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.
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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): R8-pos-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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