Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 15

Kangaroos find walking backwards very hard, and a popular story says that is why they are on Australia's coat of arms, as a sign of going forward.

Who acts: Kangaroos, popular story, that, sign · What happens: find, walk, say, be, go · To what, where: coat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 (Kangaroos, popular story, that, sign), 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	Kangaroos	kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 find	obj
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 walking	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 find	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 says	ccomp
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 are	nsubj
17	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	advcl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 coat	case
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 coat	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Australia	case
21	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 are	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 arms	case
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 coat	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sign	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 sign	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sign	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 why	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 going	mark
29	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sign	acl
30	forward	forward	ADV	_	29 going	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	Kangaroos		hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	walk	gerund			backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	a popular story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	that		as a sign; why property	tree rules
5	be	present	Kangaroos = kangaroo	Australia's coat of arms		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coat=Location
6	go	gerund	a sign not said here		forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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