The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 5

Kangaroos cannot easily move backwards, and people like to say this is why the kangaroo and the emu, which also rarely steps back, are on the Australian coat of arms.

Who acts: Kangaroos, people, this, kangaroo · What happens: not move, like, say, be, step back · To what, where: Australian coat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kangaroos, people, this, kangaroo), 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	Kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 move	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 move	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 move	advmod
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 like	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 like	nsubj
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 move	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 like	xcomp
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 say	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kangaroo	det
17	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coat	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 emu	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 emu	det
20	emu	emu	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kangaroo	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 steps	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 steps	nsubj
23	also	also	ADV	_	25 steps	advmod
24	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	25 steps	advmod
25	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kangaroo	acl
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 steps	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kangaroo	punct
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 coat	cop
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 coat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 coat	det
31	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 coat	amod
32	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 why	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 arms	case
34	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 coat	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not move	can	Kangaroos		backwards, easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	like	present	people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	this		why property	tree rules
5	step back	present	the kangaroo and the emu		rarely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the kangaroo and the emu	the Australian coat	of arms	tree rules

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:5.

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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