The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 9

The emu is Australia's biggest bird; it cannot fly, runs at about 50 kilometres per hour, booms from a throat sac, and the father sits on the eggs for about eight weeks, hardly eating or drinking.

Who acts: emu, kick, father · What happens: be, not fly, run, boom, sit, eat · To what, where: biggest bird, 50 kilometres, throat sac, eggs

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 (emu, kick, father), 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 emu	det
2	emu	emu	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Australia	case
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fly	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bird	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 runs	punct
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 kilometres	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 50	advmod
17	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 kilometres	nummod
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 runs	obl
19	per	per	ADP	_	20 hour	case
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kilometres	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 booms	punct
22	booms	boom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 sac	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sac	det
25	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sac	compound
26	sac	sac	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 booms	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sits	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sits	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 father	det
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sits	nsubj
31	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 eggs	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 eggs	det
34	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sits	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 weeks	case
36	about	about	ADV	_	37 eight	advmod
37	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 weeks	nummod
38	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sits	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eating	punct
40	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	41 eating	advmod
41	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 sits	advcl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 drinking	cc
43	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 eating	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the emu	Australia's biggest bird				tree rules
2	not fly	can	kick					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	present	kick not said here		50 kilometres per hour			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
4	boom	present	kick not said here		a throat sac			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit	present	the father		the eggs	week		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
6	eat	gerund	the father not said here				hardly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	gerund	the father not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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, 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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