The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 14

Australia has the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, descended from camels brought in the 1800s to carry goods across the desert.

Who acts: Australia · What happens: have, descend, bring, carry · To what, where: biggest herd, wild camels, camels, 1800s, goods, desert

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 (Australia), 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	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herd	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 herd	amod
5	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 camels	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 camels	amod
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 herd	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camels	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 descended	punct
13	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 camels	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 camels	case
15	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 descended	obl
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 camels	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 1800s	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 1800s	det
19	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	16 brought	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 carry	mark
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 brought	advcl
22	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 carry	obj
23	across	across	ADP	_	25 desert	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 desert	det
25	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carry	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	the biggest herd of wild camels in the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient
2	descend	participle		wild camels in the world not said here	camels	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from camel=Location
3	bring	participle		camels not said here	the 1800s	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	carry	to-infinitive		goods	the desert	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=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:14.

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): no change. 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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