The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 1

A red kangaroo bounds along like a pogo stick, and its springy tendons bounce it forward so it hardly gets tired, while a thorny devil drinks by standing in damp sand and letting tiny grooves suck the water up to its mouth like a straw.

Who acts: red kangaroo, springy tendons, kangaroo, thorny devil, tiny grooves · What happens: bound, bounce, get, drink, stand, let · To what, where: kangaroo, damp sand, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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 (red kangaroo, springy tendons, kangaroo, thorny devil), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kangaroo	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kangaroo	amod
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounds	nsubj
4	bounds	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 bounds	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
8	pogo	pogo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	compound
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounds	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bounce	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bounce	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tendons	nmod:poss
13	springy	springy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tendons	amod
14	tendons	tendon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bounce	nsubj
15	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bounds	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bounce	obj
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	15 bounce	advmod
18	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 gets	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gets	nsubj
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 gets	advmod
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bounce	advcl
22	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gets	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drinks	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 drinks	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 devil	det
26	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 devil	amod
27	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drinks	nsubj
28	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bounce	advcl
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 standing	mark
30	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 drinks	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 sand	case
32	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sand	amod
33	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 standing	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 letting	cc
35	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 standing	conj
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grooves	amod
37	grooves	groove	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 suck	nsubj
38	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 letting	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 suck	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	38 suck	compound:prt
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 mouth	case
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mouth	nmod:poss
44	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 suck	obl
45	like	like	ADP	_	47 straw	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 straw	det
47	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 suck	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bounds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bound	present	a red kangaroo			like a pogo stick; along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bounce	present	kangaroo's springy tendons	kangaroo		forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	get	present	kangaroo			hardly, tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	drink	present	a thorny devil				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	gerund	a thorny devil not said here		damp sand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location
6	let	gerund	a thorny devil not said here				tree rules
7	suck up	infinitive	tiny grooves	the water		to devil's mouth; like a straw	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source

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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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