The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 11

Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people several thousand years ago, and a dingo fence over five thousand kilometres long protects sheep farms.

Who acts: Dingoes, wild dogs, dingo fence · What happens: be, come, protect · To what, where: wild dogs, Australia, sheep farms

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 (Dingoes, wild dogs, dingo fence), 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	Dingoes	dingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dogs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dogs	cop
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dogs	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Australia	case
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thousand	amod
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fence	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fence	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fence	det
18	dingo	dingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fence	compound
19	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dogs	conj
20	over	over	ADV	_	22 thousand	advmod
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 thousand	compound
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 kilometres	nummod
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fence	amod
25	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fence	acl:relcl
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 farms	compound
27	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 protects	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dogs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dingoes	wild dogs and a dingo fence			tree rules
2	come	past	wild dogs and a dingo fence		Australia	with people; ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to australia=Initial_Location
3	protect	present	a dingo fence not said here	sheep farms			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:11.

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 ×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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