Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 5

Out of hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus each koala eats only a few, choosing less poisonous and more watery leaves, so zoos outside Australia grow eucalyptus plantations or fly in fresh leaves.

Who acts: koala, zoos · What happens: eat, choose, grow, fly · To what, where: few, hundreds, poisonous leaves, eucalyptus plantations, fresh leaves

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, zoos), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	3 hundreds	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 hundreds	case
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eats	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 kinds	case
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 eucalyptus	case
7	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 koala	det
9	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	nsubj
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 few	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 few	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eats	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 choosing	punct
15	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 eats	advcl
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 poisonous	advmod
17	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 leaves	cc
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 watery	advmod
20	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poisonous	conj
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 choosing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grow	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 grow	advmod
24	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grow	nsubj
25	outside	outside	ADP	_	26 Australia	case
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 zoos	nmod
27	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eats	conj
28	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plantations	compound
29	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grow	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 fly	cc
31	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grow	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 leaves	case
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 leaves	amod
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fly	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	each koala	a few	hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
2	choose	gerund	each koala not said here	poisonous leaves		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	grow	infinitive	zoos outside Australia	eucalyptus plantations		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plantation=Theme
4	fly	present	zoos outside Australia not said here		fresh leaves	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leaf=Location

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:5.

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, R8-pos-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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