Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 14

Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.

Who acts: Sugar gliders, legs · What happens: be, glide · To what, where: tiny marsupials, fifty metres, tree

This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (Sugar gliders, legs), 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	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gliders	compound
2	gliders	glider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 marsupials	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marsupials	amod
5	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 flaps	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flaps	compound
8	flaps	flap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	nmod
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flaps	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glide	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 glide	aux
14	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 legs	acl:relcl
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 fifty	advmod
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 glide	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 tree	case
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glide	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 tree	case
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glide	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glide	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sugar gliders	tiny marsupials				with skin flaps between marsupials's legs	tree rules
2	glide	can	marsupials's legs	fifty metres		tree	night	to tree	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Source to tree=Trajectory

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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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