Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 1

The koala looks like a teddy bear that sleeps all day, and it really does rest up to about 20 hours, because its only food, eucalyptus leaves, has little energy and poisons that take hard work to digest.

Who acts: koala, teddy bear, only food, poisons · What happens: look, sleep, rest up, have, take, digest · To what, where: little energy, hard work

This is a sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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 (koala, teddy bear, only food, poisons), 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 koala	det
2	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 bear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	compound
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sleeps	nsubj
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	acl:relcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleeps	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rest	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rest	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rest	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 rest	advmod
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rest	aux
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looks	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 rest	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 up	fixed
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 20	advmod
21	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 hours	nummod
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rest	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 has	mark
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 food	nmod:poss
26	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 food	amod
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaves	punct
29	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaves	compound
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 food	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 food	punct
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rest	advcl
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 energy	amod
34	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 poisons	cc
36	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 energy	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 take	nsubj
38	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 poisons	acl:relcl
39	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 work	amod
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 digest	mark
42	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 work	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the koala			like a teddy bear	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	sleep	present	a teddy bear		day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest up	present · do-support	koala		hour		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	koala's only food and eucalyptus leaves	little energy and poisons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
5	take	present	poisons	hard work			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
6	digest	to-infinitive	poisons not said here	hard work not said here			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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:1.

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. 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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