The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 13
The bilby is a desert marsupial with long rabbit-like ears that digs spiral burrows, and Australians buy chocolate bilbies at Easter to raise money to save them.
Who acts: bilby, long rabbit like ears, Australians · What happens: be, dig, buy, raise, save · To what, where: desert marsupial, spiral burrows, chocolate bilbies, Easter, money, Australians
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 (bilby, long rabbit like ears, Australians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bilby | det |
| 2 | bilby | bilby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marsupial | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 marsupial | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 marsupial | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marsupial | compound |
| 6 | marsupial | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ears | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ears | amod |
| 9 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rabbit | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ears | amod |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 marsupial | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 digs | nsubj |
| 14 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ears | acl:relcl |
| 15 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 burrows | amod |
| 16 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 digs | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buy | cc |
| 19 | Australians | australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 buy | nsubj |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 marsupial | conj |
| 21 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bilbies | compound |
| 22 | bilbies | bilby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buy | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Easter | case |
| 24 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 raise | mark |
| 26 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 buy | advcl |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 raise | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 save | mark |
| 29 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 raise | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 save | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marsupial | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the bilby | a desert marsupial | with long rabbit like ears | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dig | present | long rabbit like ears | spiral burrows | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | present | Australians | chocolate bilbies | Easter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bilby=Theme at easter=Asset | |||
| 4 | raise | to-infinitive | Australians not said here | money | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | Australians not said here | Australians = australian | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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