The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 15

In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast that many animals could not escape; the fires were reported to have killed or harmed huge numbers of animals, and zoo hospitals such as Taronga and Australia Zoo treated burnt koalas and kangaroos.

Who acts: hot dry forests, many animals, zoo hospitals · What happens: burn, not escape, report, kill, harm, treat · To what, where: bushfires, fires, huge numbers, burnt koalas

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 (hot dry forests, many animals, zoo hospitals), 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	_	3 bushfires	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bushfires	det
3	bushfires	bushfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 burned	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	11 forests	case
5	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 bushfires	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 2020	cc
7	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 2019	conj
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hot	punct
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 burned	nsubj
12	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reported	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 burned	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 escape	mark
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 escape	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 escape	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 escape	advmod
20	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fast	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 reported	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fires	det
23	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reported	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reported	aux:pass
25	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	28 killed	mark
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 killed	aux
28	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 reported	xcomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 harmed	cc
30	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 killed	conj
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 numbers	amod
32	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 harmed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 animals	case
34	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 numbers	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 treated	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reported	cc
37	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hospitals	compound
38	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reported	conj
39	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	41 Taronga	case
40	as	as	ADP	_	39 such	fixed
41	Taronga	Taronga	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 hospitals	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Zoo	cc
43	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Zoo	compound
44	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Taronga	conj
45	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hospitals	acl:relcl
46	burnt	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 koalas	amod
47	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 treated	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 kangaroos	cc
49	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 koalas	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 burned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past	hot dry forests			the bushfires 2019	fast property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bushfire=Location
2	not escape	could	many animals					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	report	past · passive		the fires				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	kill	to-infinitive · perfect						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	harm	participle		huge numbers of animals				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus number=Experiencer
6	treat	past	zoo hospitals such Taronga and Australia Zoo not said here		burnt koalas and kangaroos			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent koala=Recipient
7	burn	participle						vn light_emission-43.1 «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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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