Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 7

Wombats are strong, heavy marsupials that dig long burrows, and the mother's pouch faces backwards so soil does not get in while she digs.

Who acts: Wombats, heavy marsupials, pouch, soil · What happens: be, dig, face, not get in · To what, where: long burrows

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 (Wombats, heavy marsupials, pouch, soil), 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	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strong	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strong	cop
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marsupials	punct
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marsupials	amod
6	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strong	parataxis
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dig	nsubj
8	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 marsupials	acl:relcl
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burrows	amod
10	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dig	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 faces	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 faces	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pouch	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mother	case
16	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 faces	nsubj
17	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 marsupials	conj
18	backwards	backward	ADV	_	17 faces	advmod
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 get	mark
20	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 get	advmod
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 faces	advcl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 digs	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 digs	nsubj
27	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 get	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wombats		strong property	tree rules
2	dig	present	heavy marsupials	long burrows		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme
3	face	present	the mother's pouch		backward property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	not get in	present · do-support	soil			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	dig	present	soil			vn create-26.4-1-1 «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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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