Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 3

There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty metres in the dark, and the wombat, which leaves cube-shaped droppings on rocks like little dice.

Who acts: kangaroos, gliders, wombat · What happens: be, climb, sail, leave, shape · To what, where: trees, fifty metres, dark, shaped droppings, rocks

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 (kangaroos, gliders, wombat), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
4	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 climb	nsubj
6	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kangaroos	acl:relcl
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climb	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gliders	punct
9	gliders	glider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kangaroos	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sail	nsubj
11	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gliders	acl:relcl
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 metres	nummod
13	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sail	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dark	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dark	det
16	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sail	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wombat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wombat	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wombat	det
20	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leaves	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 leaves	nsubj
23	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wombat	acl:relcl
24	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shaped	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 cube	punct
26	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 droppings	amod
27	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leaves	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 rocks	case
29	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leaves	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 dice	case
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dice	amod
32	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rocks	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	kangaroos and gliders		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb	present	kangaroos and gliders	trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	sail	present	gliders	fifty metres	the dark	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory
4	leave	present	the wombat	shaped droppings	rocks like little dice	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme on rock=Location
5	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:3.

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 ×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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