Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 13

Bilbies are small desert marsupials with huge ears that rarely need to drink; foxes and rabbits brought from Europe harmed them, so Australians sell chocolate bilbies at Easter to raise money to protect them.

Who acts: Bilbies, huge ears, foxes, Australians · What happens: be, need, drink, bring, harm, sell · To what, where: small desert marsupials, foxes, Europe, bilby, chocolate bilbies, Easter

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 (Bilbies, huge ears, foxes, Australians), 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	Bilbies	bilby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 marsupials	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marsupials	amod
4	desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marsupials	amod
5	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 harmed	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ears	amod
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 need	nsubj
10	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	11 need	advmod
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ears	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drink	mark
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 foxes	punct
15	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 harmed	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rabbits	cc
17	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 foxes	conj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 foxes	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Europe	case
20	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obl
21	harmed	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 harmed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sell	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 sell	advmod
25	Australians	Australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 sell	nsubj
26	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 harmed	conj
27	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bilbies	compound
28	bilbies	bilby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sell	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 Easter	case
30	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sell	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 raise	mark
32	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sell	advcl
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 raise	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 protect	mark
35	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 raise	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 protect	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bilbies	small desert marsupials		with huge ears	tree rules
2	need	present	huge ears			rarely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	huge ears not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	participle		foxes and rabbits not said here	Europe		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from europe=Initial_Location
5	harm	past	foxes and rabbits	bilby			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
6	sell	present	Australians	chocolate bilbies	Easter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent bilby=Theme at easter=Asset
7	raise	to-infinitive	Australians not said here	money			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
8	protect	to-infinitive	Australians not said here	bilby			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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:13.

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, R7-rel-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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