The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 7

A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into the pouch and grows there for months on milk, and a mother can have a tiny baby, a joey in the pouch and an older one at foot all at once.

Who acts: newborn kangaroo, bean, mother · What happens: be, crawl, grow, have · To what, where: size, pouch, milk, tiny baby

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 (newborn kangaroo, bean, mother), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kangaroo	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kangaroo	amod
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 size	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bean	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bean	det
10	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bean	compound
11	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 crawls	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crawls	nsubj
14	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 pouch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pouch	det
17	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crawls	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grows	cc
19	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crawls	conj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grows	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 months	case
22	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grows	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 milk	case
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grows	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mother	det
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 size	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 baby	det
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 baby	amod
33	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 joey	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 joey	det
36	joey	joey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 pouch	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pouch	det
39	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 joey	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 one	cc
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 one	det
42	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 one	amod
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 joey	conj
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 foot	case
45	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 one	nmod
46	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	48 once	advmod
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 once	case
48	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 have	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 size	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a newborn kangaroo	the size			of a jelly bean; about property	tree rules
2	crawl	present	bean		the pouch			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pouch=Destination
3	grow	present	bean not said here		milk; there	month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location
4	have	can	a mother	a tiny baby				tree rules

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:7.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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