The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 15

A red kangaroo can cover about eight metres in one bound; springy tendons in its back legs store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs it little effort.

Who acts: red kangaroo, springy tendons, hopping · What happens: cover, store, hop, cost · To what, where: eight metres, energy, little effort

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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, springy tendons, hopping), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kangaroo	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kangaroo	amod
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cover	aux
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 eight	advmod
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cover	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bound	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bound	nummod
11	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 store	punct
13	springy	springy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tendons	amod
14	tendons	tendon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 store	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 legs	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tendons	nmod
19	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cover	parataxis
20	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 store	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 stick	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stick	det
23	pogo	pogo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stick	compound
24	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 store	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 costs	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 costs	advmod
27	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 costs	csubj
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hopping	advmod
29	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cover	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 costs	iobj
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 effort	amod
32	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 costs	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cover	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover	can	a red kangaroo	eight metres		in one bound	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Destination in bound=Theme
2	store	present	springy tendons in Kangaroo's back legs	energy		like a pogo stick	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	hop	gerund				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cost	present	hopping	little effort	energy		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme it=Beneficiary effort=Value

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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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