The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 5

A kangaroo chased all day would not have longer-legged babies, just as a footballer's baby is not born with strong legs.

Who acts: kangaroo · What happens: chase, not have, leg, not bear · To what, where: kangaroo, legged babies, baby

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 (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kangaroo	det
2	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kangaroo	acl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obl:unmarked
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 legged	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 longer	punct
11	legged	leg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 babies	amod
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	22 born	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 born	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 footballer	det
17	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 baby	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 footballer	case
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 born	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 born	aux:pass
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 born	advmod
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 legs	case
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 legs	amod
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 born	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle		a kangaroo not said here	day		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not have	would	a kangaroo	legged babies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	leg	participle				long property	tree rules
4	not bear	present · passive		a footballer's baby		with strong legs	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: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): R5-strong ×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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