The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 4

The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and can hop at over fifty kilometres an hour; males wrestle and kick each other with their strong back legs.

Who acts: red kangaroo, males · What happens: be, hop, wrestle, kick · To what, where: largest marsupial, fifty kilometres, each

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, males), 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	3 kangaroo	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kangaroo	amod
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marsupial	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 marsupial	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marsupial	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 marsupial	amod
7	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hop	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hop	aux
10	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 marsupial	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 kilometres	case
12	over	over	ADV	_	13 fifty	advmod
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 kilometres	nummod
14	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hop	obl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 wrestle	punct
18	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wrestle	nsubj
19	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 marsupial	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kick	cc
21	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wrestle	conj
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 kick	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 legs	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
27	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kick	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 marsupial	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the red kangaroo	the largest marsupial			tree rules
2	hop	can	the red kangaroo not said here		fifty kilometres a hour		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
3	wrestle	present	males				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kick	present	males not said here	each		with males's strong back legs	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with leg=Instrument

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:4.

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, 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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