The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 3
Skippy, Roo from Winnie the Pooh and cartoon boxers in gloves make kangaroos look like cuddly toys, but a real male's kick is rough, and the emu, the cassowary and the dingo are wild animals to watch from a safe distance.
Who acts: Skippy, kangaroos, kick, emu, real male · What happens: make, look, be, watch, kick · To what, where: kangaroos, wild 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 (Skippy, kangaroos, kick, emu), 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 | Skippy | Skippy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skippy | punct |
| 3 | Roo | Roo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 make | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Winnie | case |
| 5 | Winnie | Winnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Roo | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pooh | det |
| 7 | Pooh | Pooh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Winnie | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 boxers | cc |
| 9 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boxers | compound |
| 10 | boxers | boxer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Roo | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gloves | case |
| 12 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boxers | nmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 toys | case |
| 17 | cuddly | cuddly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 toys | amod |
| 18 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rough | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 rough | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 male | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 male | amod |
| 23 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kick | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 male | case |
| 25 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rough | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 rough | cop |
| 27 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 animals | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 emu | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 emu | det |
| 31 | emu | emu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 animals | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cassowary | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cassowary | det |
| 34 | cassowary | cassowary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 emu | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dingo | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dingo | det |
| 37 | dingo | dingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cassowary | conj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 animals | cop |
| 39 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 animals | amod |
| 40 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rough | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 watch | mark |
| 42 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 animals | acl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 distance | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 distance | det |
| 45 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 distance | amod |
| 46 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 watch | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Skippy | kangaroos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | kangaroos not said here | like cuddly toys | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a real male's kick | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the emu and the cassowary and the dingo | wild animals | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch | to-infinitive | a real male's kick not said here | from a safe distance | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | kick | a real male | nom kick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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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